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I was just doing a spot of gardening a couple of days ago in this glorious weather when a blue butterfly chanced across my path. I had never seen a blue butterfly before - my childhoods were spent chasing Red Admirals and such - but the colour of this one was so unusual as to make me wonder if God was not playing one of his little Games again. In spiritual circles, this kind of light blue evokes vastness and consciousness, the vastness of the sea and the sky. In the course of the day, I was indeed to see more blue butterflies, but none near as blue as that first one I saw.

A couple of days later, I had half a mind to take a pruning shears to a holly bush just a ways up the road, but my boss reckoned there might be holly blue butterflies nesting there. A quick perusal of the BBC website reveals holly blues (top left) are actually quite rare, andd actually easily confused with the common blue butterfly (right). Maybe the first one I saw was a holly blue, because it was MUCH bluer than the others. In any case, I’ll leave off pruning the holly bush for another month or so.