Skipper Butterfly and Bumblebee on Buttonbush bloom, photographed at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
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Such a great photograph Cindy
From your title, I’d say we’ve both treated buttonbush flower heads as celestial orbs:
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/equivalents/
Merry Christmas & all the best for 2012 xx