One of my favorite varieties for their color, and cat eye markings.
The thistle plant however, is rather NOT so attractive, So I used a very shallow DOF to blur its spiny foliage out as much as possible. (5 years and 2990 days ago)
Swallowtail Duet - created by bandit69
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