On the chin….

Day70 #365DaysWild

What an absolute beauty….

Our visit to Liesjärvi National Park was already special. Five black-throated divers on the lake had made it so. Here’s the lake on which the divers performed. One of the divers makes a cameo appearance if you look hard enough.

Then, just when my guard was down a Camberwell beauty butterfly was basking in the gravel of the car park. Boof!

Our first-ever sighting of this exotic beauty.

My iPhone photo does no justice to the luxurious velvet-purple iridescence of the opened wings. In the US the butterfly is the mourning cloak. I can see why.

Only nature can deliver these emotional knock-out punches. And this one was on the chin.