Butterflies Festival 2008

Yangmingshan National Park's annual Butterflies Festival takes place this weekend, the 31st of May and the 1st of June. Golden ladies couldn't wait for the crowd and took an early morning drive to dance with the butterflies at Ta-tung Mountain Thursday, the 29th of May. The entire mountaintop was covered with delicious food for thousands of butterflies. They were happy eating, sleeping, and making love. Golden ladies are happy to share with their happiness at the peak of their life cycles.

Blue Tiger Butterflies
Blue Tiger Butterflies are not afraid of people. They are not afraid of predators behind. They stood tall on the flowers at ease. Nobody dares risk toching the poisonous butterflies, because the toxic plants the caterpillars feed on remain in thier bodies to expel the enemies in the nature.

Photographers Toastmasters
A picture is worth one thousand words. Today we had three photographers in our group. The definition of photographer is a person who owns an expensive camera. Petra and Margaret have Nikon, Virginia has Canon. I am not a so called photographer, because mine is a petit Konica Minolta Dimage Xg digital, not capable of grabbing the beauty at a hundredth of a second. But it is a birthday present from my husband. It has traveled around the world with me in the past five years. It's a precious toy I keep in my bag everyday.