A buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia) on a coreopsis flower at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum’s Butterflies Alive exhibit.
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-B. Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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As always, stunning. Z
I’m always amazed at nature’s art