“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have to totally agree with that quote, because I had to literally sit motionless, next to the flowers, and wait for a while to capture this butterfly from so close.

Initially I used to take aim after the butterfly landed on a flower, but even the slightest movement would cause the butterfly to take off, and I never got a shot. So later I just waited with my camera ready and aimed at a flower and hoped that the butterfly would stop at that flower. Soon enough my patience paid off and I got this shot and some more, which I shall upload in later posts.