In April of 2022, when I first saw a butterfly, I took a picture of it and excitedly started to paint it, but instead of making the background a light peach, it ended up becoming bright orange. The next time I saw the butterfly I had to tell it I painted it white because it wouldn’t show up against orange.
It came flying closer and posed inches away from my knuckles, as if to say, “NOW can you paint me YELLOW?” I stayed up that night to do so.
Usually, it’s not a butterfly that poses that close to my camera, but a dragonfly. A “Mugiwara Tombow” posed on a post nearby today and let me get unbelievably close, showing off. But moments later, An orange butterfly stopped on a dandelion to the side and let me get within centimeters of it too. “Wow! I used to think dragonflies were the absolute gutsiest...”
“Nothing’s Changed!” It seemed to say. “What about THIS? June, come here!” The dragonfly braced himself on that post and seemed to call to me to come closer, closer...until I was within millimeters of it and was scared I’d touch its wings! I guess this is what you call the “Pride of the Dragon(fly)”. He is still King of Insects.
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