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* Butterflies are Free *

        Okay now, here's the story of the butterfly I had this weekend.
    Friday afternoon the weather wasn't very desirable and this butterfly
made its way into our building at work and landed on me. I took it to my
office where I just happened to have my camera and took a few pictures of
it.
    It stayed on me so I took it around and showed a few people.
    I safely put it into a small container and took it home after work. Once
there I took it outside where I placed it in a tree and proceeded to take
several more pictures before it flew away. The weather started getting rough
again and the poor thing was having a very hard time hanging on to the tree
so I let it climb back on my hand and took it back into my apartment.

    I mixed up some honey and a little water and with its long proboscis
(tongue) extended I was able to hand-feed it for a while. That was just
amazing.

    After a little thought I decided to take some pictures of the butterfly
with some of my musical instruments. After a little bribery of more honey
and water It graciously accepted my photo-shoot plans and proceeded to climb
about the instruments and show off. I got some amazing shots on a guitar,
piano keys, a violin, and a flute.

    I let it stay here over night and decided to take it out the next
afternoon, Saturday.
    I let it climb around on the tree again and the weather was still pretty
rough so I took it back inside for yet another day.

    The weather cleared up and was getting pretty nice Sunday afternoon so I
took it back outside and got a few more pictures before it finally flew
away.

        Let me know if you want to see more shots of the butterfly. I've got
161 of them with it on the various musical instruments, in the trees,
sitting and feeding from my hands and out of a dish.