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So, I found it there.
A beautiful one.

Its name is Indian Fritillary.

It seems sipping nectar from tiny flowers with its sucking straw extended to a portion where drip of nectar would be.

Hovering and griding from one flower to the other.
On its wing is pattern well decorated by nobody but by the power of nature.
The pattern is actually millions of microscopic jewelries so called wing scales.

Extending from its head seen antennae like two thin lodes, probably they are kinds of sensing device.

The primary function of the antennae is detecting odors. They contain thousands of sensory receptors that allow butterflies to smell flowers and locate nectar sources from a distance.

Finding Mates🤔
Butterflies use their antennae to detect pheromones, which are chemical signals released by potential mates. This helps males and females locate one another for reproduction.

Balance During Flight😮
At the base of each antenna is a sensory structure called Johnston’s organ. It detects air movement, vibrations, and changes in body position, helping butterflies maintain stability while flying.
Navigation and Orientation🤓
Antennae help butterflies sense wind direction and environmental conditions, allowing them to orient themselves and navigate more effectively during flight.
Touch and Environmental Awareness🤠
Butterfly antennae also contain mechanoreceptors that detect physical contact and movement. These receptors help butterflies explore their surroundings and avoid obstacles.
Interesting Fact😀
Most butterflies have club-shaped antennae with a swollen tip. This feature helps distinguish butterflies from many moths, which often have feathery or thread-like antennae.

Everyone knows it was not like that appearance.
It was a caterpillar, like a picture below.

As everyone know, the caterpillar becomes a chrysalis.
Then, finally the chrysalis metamorphoses into a butterfly.

Those three phases of this lifeform, completely different from each other yet somehow similarity is recognized, are complete mystery.

Why it is like that? The reason so far has not been well explained.

Flying is, I assume, to keep the diversity of its DNA as it finds a mate where it has not been i.e. the mate might have another pattern of DNA. (This is my personal opinion.)

Anyway, why does it take that complicated process?

The process is often seen as like dancing in a night club to find a love.
Oh, I have not been that sort of person who visits night club, even it is impossible to start conversation with a stranger, too shy to find mate in that kind of way.

By the way, how could I find my wife? Power of nature or destiny?

Here the pictures from them I have some imaginations that associated with modern civilization.

In the Sky, Cloud is looming, from behind is sunlight insisting on. Sky! It evokes world whole. There, cloud is looking like ruling over the world or it believes so though actually it can never erase the righteousness of sunlight. It just simply musk it only from an angle. By flanking around the corner can ones be confident of its existence anytime, anywhere. Thus, “war” is like cloud, “no war” is like sunlight.

Sunlight is source of energy. Clean and no carbon yet it is not like solar panel. Sunlight perfectly synchronized with the world. Maybe with “perfect” scientific sense, we can fully utilize the energy of sunlight without such imperfection like solar panel.

Below, yes, flower!
This zoom up picture makes just small and ordinally plant and flower marvelous.
Whenever I see plants in this way, wonder about their geometry and color rises in my mind a feeling that says “how it is generated”.

Not only flowers but also green plants should be worth focusing on.

Here I arrange pictures that I have taken recently.

Facing at a drastic shift of my life that has been emerging recently I am feeling uncertain, yes, at least, it is not pleasures nor sadness but of future.
Yes, I chosen to take that shift. Challenge.
Anyway, I am not so strong.
In my mind, there are two sides. Yes, you can guess what I suppose.
Being Conservative or ——–
The more the future I chosen looks drastic, the more the present looks comfortable.
Maybe, only the time can ease this uncertainty.

Flowers, even quite tiny ones become marvelous when you closely look them.
Then, around them is green, flesh green, symbol of life.

I pray that those life forms give me a strength to carry on.

Oh, what an elaborate statement! Too much! 😂

On the way to my daily commute to the office, encouraging me is tiny but mighty power of nature yet, I think, vulnerable in some way.
Encouraging for what? Yes, making me feel embraced by something transcendent so that I can carry on.

Tiny, Mighty and Vulnerable?
Can you guess?

Dandelion fluff! Its “mechanism”, how it was created is still a mystery or more precisely saying, no 100% complete explanation has not yet been found.

It spreads those seeds. Each seed is equipped with feather like aerodynamic parts which reminds us of parachute.

The parachute troop will soon launch the drop operation.
In this, “Operation Dandelion fluff”, each seed will land on somewhat distant place, distant from others and its origin.
Viewing this process with Inductive Method, maybe it provides a twisting stuff to DNA for keeping DNA diverse i.e. widespread seeds can have opportunities of incorporating something another.

Some Japanese people call it “snake-strawberry”.
I don’t know why.
Anyway, in a random but ruled by something unknown or DNA, it’s red fruit clearly shows an existence of power that shapes that beautiful geometry.

Here are Ladybugs.

In species line of Ladybugs, there are a lot of types especially its color and pattern. On the picture, as you can see, the left one; black background and two red spots, the right one; orange background and many black spots.

Why? For what?
Anyway, at least we can say that nature is not the sort that is isotropic or homogeneous rather has been so far opting for diversity.

Will this state in a future converge into isotropic or homogeneous?
I don’t think so because I will not eat exactly the same food on every occasion of meal. If I do things in that way i.e. always the same, I am quite sure that my consciousness will be collapsed because of entropy.
As long as Entropy works, isotropic and homogeneous can never last.
——-All the above is just my personal opinion anyway 🤣🤣😘

Stingray, I found there. In the river mouth, brackish water area. Around floating are mullets. The fish is big, in the size around 1m. So, comparing those fishes you can see the size of the stingray which I found.

Spring has been closely approaching, and water temperature has been rising.
Fishes and Stingrays are flocking around the river mouth.

Ducks. They seem to have gone to Siberia where their breeding areas are found.
In turn, swallows have already arrived here in Japan. Habitat sharing? Perhaps?

Here I took a short video footage of “sliding” stingray.
It moves the edge of its circular body like transmitting wave, with acceleration exchanged between body and water which gives the stingray thrust force or propulsion.

Mullets are famous for karasumi (dried mullet roe).
Some Japanese say Mullets are good (as sea food)
But most of Japanese people would say, “It’s not suitable for food because of its unpleasant odder”. (It’s like smell of mud often found in riverbed in urban area)

Some people say that those mullets that are found far from coastline are good.

Those lifeforms are found in the river mouth just next to my factory office where I was transferred last year from a distant place where my family members remain.

Then, I said to my wife on mobile phone that I want to catch the fish with large net.
Then she said,
“Don’t! It’s quite embarrassing if you are seen by your office colleagues, they would say “Look at that guy, Mr.X isn’t it? Foolish! Of chasing mullets!””.

So, I gave up the idea of returning to my childhood.

Of course, even if I have still a sense of wild-kids, visually nobody can recognize the sense because I am looking quite like seiner aged man, it’s unlikely that people see me as “The little Prince”.

There let me share the beautiful sight in Japan.
Himeji castle.

The lighting is too bright for my old-fashioned smart phone. Not “smart” maybe.
Then, here it is. Is that better?

Anyway, it seems to me that I am apparently not of a person who has a talent of photographer.

Nevertheless, we Japanese welcome tourists from abroad and recommend visiting Himeji castle.
It locates just 10 minutes’ walk from Himeji station where several railways are available, and the railway system is well organized making such famous tourism spots as Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Wakayama accessible.

Especially, in Cherry Blossom season, it will be quite fabulous sight.

For a distinguished couple, who have long dedicated for family and society and whom I want to have a good time, this is one of the best offers.

They migrate every winter from Siberia to Japan.
They have continued the same, well before Japanese primitives started Jomon era.
At that time, those primitives did not know anything about Siberia, but Ducks did.
Yes,
well before some Japanese guys call themselves Samurai,
well before importing industrialization from occidentals.

Cool!
Transcendent!

Anyway, from when and how it was in initial period.
There must be some terrible event that drives them to such a challenge.
Then, they succeeded in overcoming it in a way that is well adopted to Nature.

Cool!
Transcendent!

Now spring is approaching, they will return to Siberia.

Every time I find migratory ducks, I remember “The Wonderful Adventures of Nils”.

This picture was taken just around the river where I was watching the ducks.
So bright was the purple and the yellow center that I could not resist to take the photo.

Music for Ducks:
https://youtu.be/m-fsseylop0?si=Isj3JX6NfIswFS_A
Maybe in a past I put the same music but this time the best suits to the story of ducks, I think.
For ducks the first attempt of migrating was like finding Avalon, I just imagine.

Avalon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon

Here, the moss is covered with frost.
Moss? or very small vegetation. I do not know the name and did not look it up via AI. That doesn’t matter.

The moss will never back down. The picture was taken in a morning sun thereby in a matter of few hours frost would be taken over by the rising temperature of surrounding winter daylight.

Before human starts initial form of civilization, they had and have, thrived.

A green leave covered with morning frost but never lose its life-full fresh green yet while the frost insisting on its presence.

The frost is crystallization of water. Moss is crystallization of such basic building blocks for lifeform as.
Oxygen (O)
Carbon (C)
Hydrogen (H)
Nitrogen (N)
Phosphorus (P) – backbone of DNA/RNA, part of ATP
Sulfur (S) – in amino acids like cysteine and methionine
Calcium (Ca) – signaling
Potassium (K) – nerve signaling, osmoregulation
Sodium (Na) – essential ion balance
Chlorine (Cl) – ionic balance
Magnesium (Mg) – central atom in chlorophyll

Two crystals, cross sectioned with a border line defined by energy of quantum present to us such artistic? no! it is natural art.

The wonder is water crystallize in a similar shape of the moss it seems like water is reflecting the shape of moss, how come this consciousness-exchanging-like-state?

Music Sharing:

These pictures have just been taken minutes ago.

Today, I don’t have any idea on my absurd science monologue.
But for my new year greetings to WordPress bloggers, let me share some contents.

Surviving green, accessory like red seeds, crowned with red-brown leaves.
Behind is the blue sky.

Also, you see multiple colors. Under the carpet of dry leaves hibernating are　red-clawed crabs I imagine.

Very small one but with highlighted by picture the beauty comes powerful. 👇　

Recently, I have been obsessed with Alan Walker’s music in collaboration with multiple singers.
I think he was quite active long time ago and now if I refer to his music possibly some people would say,
“That’s so last year!”,
“That’s out of style!”.
Anyway, on You Tube are huge music contents therefore, I suppose, trend or generation issue would finally be “out of style”. ——- Oh, such an overstated!!!

So, here below let me share some of his and his collaborators works with their links to YouTube. So, if you are interested in, please try and enjoy them.
https://youtu.be/WrHDquZ-tj0?si=nME74J7h5XF86HAa

https://youtu.be/m-fsseylop0?si=rmOgW0YuDQmSvvcq

https://youtu.be/QZThVtnLJVg?si=aMOO5eRDASX0U3U1

On the globe, winter has already come in some countries yet some parts in Japan we still see greetings of fall.

Fall or autumn, it’s described as, in English.
“Fall” may be leaves or fruits fall from tree.
What about “Autumn”? I don’t know.

Plants synchronize to climate. That has been apprehended by human in some ways or not at all, yes, anyway there still be hundreds of mysteries.

Below let me share some of the pictures I have recently taken to describe greetings of fall around me.

Red balls! Christmas? No, that’s winter. These ones still are of Autumn.

I attempted to eat it then found myself understanding that it is of not something to eat for human.

It’s, I think, it will not gain popularity, but I like this because of its geometrical beauty, don’t you think it is?

Geometry in lifeform. Divine mystery.

Here I share the links to music that may be associated with autumn with their melody line and rhythm.