Green and Blue

Nature’s colours

What with the blue of sky and green of leaves, blue and green are common acquaintances in nature. The view of my regular lockdown walk down the right hand side of the river (above) was taken on evening last week. But I looking through my archives and find some other examples of natural blues and greens.

Like this Common Blue butterfly. It’s not long emerged from its chrysalis and is sitting here upside down on a reed stem taking in the heat of the morning sun.

A small butterfly but the male is so blue and when you see them fluttering by you feel there’s something magical happening.

The green head below belongs to a male Goldeneye – not as in the Bond Movie…… as in the duck.

The only thing this duck has in common with Bond is the amount of underwater activity it gets involved in. It’s mission is bottom feeding, and it’ll spends many hours diving down out of sight and re-appearing somewhere else on the surface.

I found a photograph of this amazing flowerhead – they stand about 1.5 metres high. I came across it in the garden of a castle on the Isle of Arran. I have no idea what it’s called – so if anyone does please let me know.

And this next natural vision of blue in amongst the green is courtesy of the Cranesbill. A wild geranium commonly seen especially near our river banks.

Finally, I’m finishing off with another flying insect and it’s a blue-tailed damselfly.

Like the Common Blue above, this damselfly was found in a conservation area further downstream near the river in the opening shot.

Thanks to Tina for setting the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge Cool Colours – Blue and Green earlier this week this week. Check out the link.

19 thoughts on “Green and Blue”

  9. Wonderful images James – question, how does one know a damsel from a dragon?? Loved your butterfly and your flowerhead looks like a beautiful Christmasn tree in blue! Terrific post.

    Liked by 1 person

    1. Thanks Tina! there’s a lot of differences between damsels and dragons. The main one I see is that damsels fold their wings backwards when at rest dragonflies wings sit straight outwards.

      Like

Comments are closed.