Butterfly Bush
Personal memory by Jensen Williams
2022 CE • Manassas, VA, USA
Growing up in my backyard we had a butterfly bush. The most beautiful colored butterflies would appear: yellow, orange, blue, white. Now that I am older they don't seem to come around as often.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: C Watts via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
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