Close Encounters & Photos of Flowers + Butterflies

One day I felt so inspired to have a close up view of everything beautiful around me. A friend loaned me her jewelers' magnifying glass, which allowed me to be within an inch from a flower or an insect and to enter into another world.
Photos couldn't capture the same essence, but here they are.






I learned that butterflies always return to the same flowers and that I can be patient with my camera.