Madame Butterfly

 Deborah Klein, Amerila alberti Moth Mask

Winged symbols of metamorphosis, rebirth and the soul

butterflies are beautiful harbingers of change 

and of the precious fragility of life

 Jenkins, To dream of tomorrow

 Cynthia von Buhler

Maggie Taylor 

Photo by Bert Stern from Vogue, December 1964 

thanks to Diamonds and rubharb

 Alberto Martini, Donna farfalla civetta, 1907, thanks to billyjane 

 Carsten Witte

 Elena Kalis

 Ingrid Dijkers, Flight, altered book 

thanks to traveling with the ghost

 Heinz Edelmann

 Aimee Sicuro, Spring on the mind 

thanks to The Art Room Plant

Gwenda Kaczor, Flying Free

Find more butterfly ladies and similar hybrid creatures

in last September's post Wings of Desire