Posted on 08/24/2019 11:09:47 AM PDT by mairdie
A visit to The Butterfly Place yesterday resulted in this memory of the trip. I love Joseph Blanchard's compositions. And I'm impressed at how well phone cameras work, as opposed to the big, clunky ones of the past.
PING to butterflies to gentle music
Beautiful.
Absolutely lovely, mairdie! Blanchard’s music accompanies well the flight of the butterflies...
Oh, thank you both.
I’ve been watching it a number of times. Have to admit that I prefer seeing them while leaning back in air conditioning to trying to hold still in mugginess. There were these glorious blue ones that kept whipping past my viewfinder and never landing. Drove me bonkers. And the one that landed on my hand that, thankfully, wasn’t the one holding the camera so I could turn the camera onto it. It was fun!
Love it...is that a special feeder or home made?
Beautiful and peaceful, thank you.
I would think that they bought it and the manufacturer made it with a blue kitchen tuffy. But they breed their own butterflies there, so making it isn’t out of the question. Fascinating how the little holes mimic the flower vase. And thank you, goodness.
Thanks, little jeremiah. I love peaceful things. Encourages naps.
Enjoyed this video, Joe’s music was a perfect match.
Thank you! Very beautiful!!
As always, thank you.
I once spent the day at Arroyo del Seco with two high school chums, to see the insect life, most notably the Monarchs. It was a vivid experience.
“Have you ever been down Salinas way?
Where Steinbeck found the valley,
And he wrote about it the way it was in his travelin’s
with Charley,
And have you ever walked down through the sycamores,
Where the farmhouse used to be,
There the monarch’s autumn journey ends,
On a windswept cyprus tree.”
From “California Saga” [1973] by The Beach Boys
I was rather shocked when I saw the music named Butterfly Dance.
I’m so very pleased, iceskater. Thank you.
You inspire me to search YouTube. Someone must have videotaped them. I’m glad you liked it.
I am confused. Do you mean the Monarchs of Arroyo del Seco, or The Beach Boys?
If you mean the song, understand it is the third part of a suite; it is the third part:
California Saga: Big Sur
California Saga: The Beaks of Eagles
California Saga: California (On My Way to Sunny Californ-I-A)
The second part includes spoken word taken from poet Robinson Jeffers.
This is from the album, Holland [1973], which was during the period when they toured with The Grateful Dead, and played at The Big Sur Folk Festival. It is country-western/folk in style. It was a favorite album of artists like Elvis Costello and Tom Petty.
P.S.
It is just called Arroyo Seco (I was not thinking clearly when I wrote that); it is also in the Monterey area, the region the song cites.
The song later mentions Country Joe; that is Country Joe McDonald, of Country Joe and the Fish.
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