Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Arabia Mountain Wildflowers and Butterfly


 

Arabia Mountain with beautiful wildflowers makes for a very pleasant walk.  These blue flowers are called "Slender Dayflowers" and I believe that they are Commalina Erecta, but all I know for sure is that they are such a welcome sight, that lovely clear blue.  "The true blue of the upper petals is very rare among wildflowers" that is one of the facts that I read and it's true, we have mostly yellows in this Georgia heat.  I can't tell you how nice and cool it seems to gaze upon this blue flower.

 

Isn't this another lovely flower? Such a delicate beauty.   It is a "Blazing Star" and is a Liatris.  These were at the base of the mountain and along the wooded area leading to the mountain.  The Slender Dayflowers were all over the mountain.  We also had Pineweed much looks almost like tiny bright green pine trees but they are low to the ground and are very soft with tiny five petal yellow flowers at the very top.  The flowers are so small that they look like yellow dots at the top of the plants.  We couldn't even get a good photo of those.
 
The yellow daisies are just beginning to bloom.  They only grow within a radius of 60 miles of Stone Mountain and they will bloom until November.  (Arabia Mountain is about 12 miles or so from Stone Mountain.)  You will see more photos of Stone Mountain soon! And the yellow daisies!
 
Just as we were leaving a beautiful butterfly was flying around at the base of the mountain, and stopped just long enough for Richard to snap this picture.  I love this too because you can see the lovely rock.  It was wonderful to be back on our mountain!  Glad you could come with us!  Nice of the butterfly to see us off, wasn't it?  (Is this a red spotted purple? If it is, who names these butterflies, anyway, couldn't they come up with something better than that for this gorgeous bit of life? Just look at that blue color!)

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  1. Yay! I think I'm actually the first this time!

    Check out this post:
    http://www.audreygoeslocal.blogspot.com/2010/07/nature-walk.html

    Do you think it's the same type of butterfly? Isn't that wild???

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    1. I couldn't link to it but I went to your blog and went through all of 2010 until I found it, and yes, I think it is the same type of butterfly!
      And skimming over your posts, I am amazed even more at how much we have in common. Not only are our child-rearing methods similar, but I heart Mark Ruffalo too!

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  2. How absolutely beautiful! It's breathtaking how one can find the most gorgeous flowers and creatures just quietly living in obscurity. That butterfly is something else.

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    1. And those butterflies and flowers, all are free, for anyone to see!

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  3. Lovely flowers!
    I saw a similar butterfly at
    http://myfavoritesheep.blogspot.com/2012/08/meanwhile-back-at-olympic-villagehey.html

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    1. I couldn't find it on your blog, but I hope to go back and look and see it. I love butterflies, don't you?

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    1. Isn 't it just and Richard did such a good job to get that shot, we have the fastest butterflies in the world in Georgia!

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  5. Both the flowers and the butterfly alone made your trip worthwile - not to speak of the whole atmosphere on and around Arabia Mountain, by now so familiar to me that all that's missing is myself actually GOING there :-)
    Thank you for taking us with you again! I missed "our" walks there.

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    1. Oh yes, happy to walk there again and we are glad you like to go with us! :-)
      We have missed going this summer, and we think we see why someone called it "Arabia", because of the heat! Can't wait until Autumn when we go so much more often.

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  6. Nice tour of the mountain.
    Fabulous butterfly, and very well taken picture!

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    1. Thanks, and I will tell Richard that you said so! And I might add, that the photo was at my direction. You know, like this, "Oh, Richard, quick, quick...get it, it's just over there...hurry, hurry". Yes, Richard still takes great photos with me blabbing like this in the background!

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  7. Gorgeous butterfly,it certainly deserves a very glamorous name.

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    1. I think it should be Glorius Magnificus...but hey, that's just me!

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  8. That was a beautiful walk. The butterfly looked as if it was made of leather - never seen anything like it before.

    Your weather looks wonderful. We were on the beach in sunshine yesterday but today - blowing a hooley and torrential rain - oh well such is life!

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    1. Glad you liked the walk! On Saturday we plan to go to Stone MOuntain! Stay tuned for another post about it!
      And I would ask what a "hooley" is, but maybe I don't want to know! Never mind, I know it is lovely where you are, even in lots of rain!

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  9. I very glad I came with you on this walk, wow, beautiful landscape, makes me want to paint!

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    1. There are so many things on this walk that I would love to paint. If only I had the talent of an artist!

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  10. The wildflowers look lovely, and it is very interesting to see how things have changed on the mountain as the year has progressed.
    The butterfly is really beautiful, and so good at posing!

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    1. Glad you like to come with us to Arabia Mountain!

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  11. Nice to see Arabia Mountain through the seasons. Wild flowers are my favorite really & these are lovely.

    best,
    e

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    1. Thanks, Elizabeth Aley!
      (Love you have your new last name on there now!)
      And I LOVE wildflowers too! xx

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  12. Your walks are always beautiful, thanks for taking us. We have no mountains here, so i love seeing yours.

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    1. The funny things, these "stone" mountains are all alone. They just rise up from the landscape and the early settlers here were very startled by them.
      We have mountains in North Georgia but that is a good two hour drive from here!
      Makes me appreciate that we have Arabia so close to us!

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  13. So beautiful in your neck of the woods...I mean mountains! I'm always amazed at how hard I work to get my flowers to bloom, live, thrive and then God just sprinkles his wildflowers and they are glorious! Then He sends that beautiful butterfly just to say hi. That makes a nice walk...glad you invited me!

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    1. That is so true! Richard has pointed out to me several times, that the way the wildflowers grow on the mountain that it looks as if a professional landscaper had been at work. And I agree, but it is a divine one!
      Wait until you see this mountain in the Autumn with those yellow daisies!!

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  14. What gorgeous pictures. You are soooo blessed to have such a lovely walk in such beautiful surroundings. And the butterfly too. Thanks for sharing your walks with us. We were at Stone Mountain last year, but didn't get such a close-up view of all this.

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    1. We LOVE Arabia Mountain and Stone Mountain, I wish I could be a wild mountain woman and they would allow me to live there and to show people around. Ah, my crazy dreams!

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  15. Beautiful photos, Kay. And thank you for taking us along! I always enjoy these nature walks. That butterfly is stunning. There are so many gorgeous ones, aren't there? Such little miracles of life.

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    1. Thanks, Martha! You take such great photos of flowers and wildlife. Richard wants to go to Canada now!

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