Random Act of Metaphor: A Butterfly Adrift on a Kettle Lake
Hmmm, a butterfly adrift on the glassy surface of a kettle lake. What should we make of this curious scene?
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It does not take a biologist to know that butterflies do not belong in the water. How this European Skipper can to be in this predicament I cannot say. It seems unlikely it intentionally landed on the water – and even less likely that it would be able to free itself by launching into flight. The only certainty is that it was doomed to be a meal for an opportunistic frog.
But you have to concede that the unlikely occurrence made for a striking photograph. The skipper, only recently emerged from caterpillar stage, displayed perfect colours and markings – the butter-yellow wings with their black trim and white edging perfectly fanned for visual effect.
The tiny body mass of the skipper was not enough to cause it to sink. But it was enough to create elegant, concentric rings spreading outward with geometric precision over the glassy surface of the kettle lake. I could not resist capturing the scene.
If you follow my blog regularly, you know that this is what I refer to as a random act of metaphor. I could go in several different directions interpreting it. But this time I am going to leave it to you, the reader, to decide.
A butter-yellow butterfly adrift on the glassy surface of a kettle lake, a random act of metaphor for…
~ Michael Robert Dyet is the author of “Until the Deep Water Stills – An Internet-enhanced Novel” – double winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards 2009. Visit Michael’s website at www.mdyetmetaphor.com or the novel online companion at www.mdyetmetaphor.com/blog.
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(Visit www.mdyetmetaphor.com/blog2 to view the photograph included with this post.)
It does not take a biologist to know that butterflies do not belong in the water. How this European Skipper can to be in this predicament I cannot say. It seems unlikely it intentionally landed on the water – and even less likely that it would be able to free itself by launching into flight. The only certainty is that it was doomed to be a meal for an opportunistic frog.
But you have to concede that the unlikely occurrence made for a striking photograph. The skipper, only recently emerged from caterpillar stage, displayed perfect colours and markings – the butter-yellow wings with their black trim and white edging perfectly fanned for visual effect.
The tiny body mass of the skipper was not enough to cause it to sink. But it was enough to create elegant, concentric rings spreading outward with geometric precision over the glassy surface of the kettle lake. I could not resist capturing the scene.
If you follow my blog regularly, you know that this is what I refer to as a random act of metaphor. I could go in several different directions interpreting it. But this time I am going to leave it to you, the reader, to decide.
A butter-yellow butterfly adrift on the glassy surface of a kettle lake, a random act of metaphor for…
~ Michael Robert Dyet is the author of “Until the Deep Water Stills – An Internet-enhanced Novel” – double winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards 2009. Visit Michael’s website at www.mdyetmetaphor.com or the novel online companion at www.mdyetmetaphor.com/blog.
~ Subscribe to “Michael’s Metaphors of Life Journal aka Things That Make Me Go Hmmm” at its’ internet home www.mdyetmetaphor.com/blog2. Instructions for subscribing are provided in the “Subscribe to this Blog: How To” instructions page in the right sidebar. If you’re reading this post on another social networking site, come back regularly to my page for postings once a week.
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