Celebrating ....borboletas

borboletas, mariposas, butterflies - These tiny, delicate creatures got to be photographed on their 1st birthday at the Botanical Garden-Lisbon-not their "real" first birthday as unfortunately they don't live that long...but the one of this beautiful project. They are called Monarch butterflies and are one of the few insects capable of making transatlantic crossings - as they say. I saw them "taking breakfast", I saw them "making love" (even though the most amazing thing I have ever seen was not photographed-that was two butterflies flying together, he "hooked" her and they ran away), I saw them flying against the morning light....and this is how they turned out to be.