{"id":1028,"date":"2010-08-18T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/butterfly-tree\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:24:00","slug":"butterfly-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/butterfly-tree.html","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
<\/a>Today when I was mowing the lawn, I noticed once again that there seemed to be several butterflies, which appeared to be black, spending time in the shadow of our pear trees. This time, however, I took a closer look.<\/div>\n
The first thing that I discovered was that, far from being plain and black, these butterflies were mostly blue<\/em>, with the\u00a0color ranging from a deep purple to a light, almost iridescent blue, but this was not apparent when they were in the shadows.<\/div>\n

The next thing I discovered was that, as I took the time to look up into the trees, that the trees were\u00a0full<\/em> of butterflies. It was as though\u00a0they were\u00a0butterfly trees rather than (or at the same time as) pear trees.<\/p>\n

There is no particularly deep message in this, other than that sometimes there is a lot more going on in a familiar place or scene than we are likely to\u00a0notice, with our tendency to look superficially. <\/p>\n

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The photos in this post are ones I took today.<\/p>\n

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