It is said that when people are told they are going to die, they see things differently. That was certainly the case with me. I came out of the hospital and truly saw how beautiful the world was for the first time. How blue the sky, how green the grass. Everything looked more than real. To me, it still does. Hyper-real.
Tortoiseshell
The small tortoiseshell butterfly hibernates through the Winter and is one of the first to emerge in the Spring.