117/365: Kasia and the Butterfly

117/365: Kasia and the Butterfly, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

April 27th

The Lodz Zoo opened a special butterfly exhibit. You're not supposed to pick up the butterflies, but if they land on you themselves, it's fair game. ;)
It was hard to take photos, because the butterflies prefer to keep their wings closed...

...and they favour the ceiling. But this fellow decided to stick with us for a while:

I got a photo with him, too. Made me think of milking butterflies in Glitch. :P

Gifts from Radesh

My cat friend Radesh is a prodigious hunter. Since we have known each other he has brought me many gifts:

butterflies



moths



frogs



rats



and yesterday, a mole



Some of them, like the mole, I have rescued and set free. Some he ate on the spot. Some were resurrected in the middle of the night to scritch and scratch around my bedroom.

There was one morning when he woke me up at dawn, bringing a sparrow through the window. The thing was dead. I crawled back into bed and watched Radesh eat the bird whole, bones, feathers, beak and all.

Ah, nature.