Enjoy Colors!! Welcome to the butterfly house in Vienna, Austria.

I was lucky to get an opportunity to visit "The Butterfly House" in Vienna, Austria recently. In one word the experience was delightful. 

When one watches a butterfly with vibrant colored wings, flying around, even an old man or a depressed heart inside a young man would change for a while.

Although they were maintaining a tropical climate inside, (very hot and humid), one would not feel it while watching the playful butterflies.

I got an opportunity to capture this beautiful black and blue butterfly while it was sleeping peacefully on a green leaf. 

To me a butterfly is a flying flower. I can only wonder to the amazing creations of nature!!

While this red and brown colored butterfly was sucking honey from the flower, I captured the beautiful moment. 

I feel, these selfless small moments make us conscious that it needs really very small things to be happy and fulfilled. Perhaps a butterfly needs a little sunshine and a flower.

Though we try to find happiness in a man made world but the real treasure and wisdom lies within nature.We need to just look at them and realize.

Thanks to this lovely colorful butterfly...It made my day!

Nature gives everyone a weapon to defend itself. While the two butterflies were happily feasting on some small pieces of apple, I captured them. 

The closed wings of the butterflies are designed in such a way that if a bird watches it from a distance it may assume it to be another bird because of its false eye like design. 

Indeed a wonderful example of camouflage!!

These are the butterfly larvae or caterpillars.

I remember the well known proverb, "Just when the caterpillar thought that the world was over, it became a butterfly".

Though the average life span of a butterfly is only a month or even shorter for smaller butterflies, I wonder how beautifully they enjoy their short life while spreading charm to their surroundings!!




Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small and big, cute, colorful and free butterflies could lead one to the shiny side of life. I remember one of my favorite quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough"       


























When I watched the butterflies flying from one place to another it seemed as if they were celebrating each and every moment of their life and their wings were shining brightly in the sun. Those fluttering butterflies were beyond my grasp but the moment I was unmindful, it kissed me.