Three Beautiful Things - Names

Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 3:23PM
Velvet Snoutingdingle in 3BT, Three beautiful things

Keywording photographs from the garden is a chore, but sometimes it turns up tiny linguistic patterns not unlike those of the insects I've been photographing all summer.

1. The Dutch name for the Southern Hawker dragonlfly is the Blue Glassmaker
2. The Spanish name for Dandelion is Diente de león, which means Lion's teeth
3. The latin name for the Small Skipper's means Little Dancer of the Woods

 

Article originally appeared on The Night Planted Orchard (https://www.nightorchard.org/).