As I wandered around the campus of Spicer, one of the companies that KM consults for (the factory is midway between Hubli and Dharwad), I got this snap of the Crimson Rose butterfly:

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And the side view, too…photographing butterflies is hard, frustrating WORK!

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Butterfly…the name is a corruption of “Flutterby”, which was what they were called, with good reason! You aim your camera…you steady it…..you alMOST click…and the thing has….fluttered by! Wait for more pictures from the Dandeli trip…..