The butterfly collector

This butterfly collector is collecting from the top of a flower of one of the left over leeks in our garden. We left a few leeks in so we can get the seeds from them and use them next year.
Notice hoe the underside of the wing of this Lepidoptera is really quite gorgeus at the top, but positively scabby looking at the bottom. It was not particularly easy to get this shot on my iphone, as the flower was blowing gently in the breeze. I wish they had a macro photo app for them.
On the second fower behind there is some sort of beautiful blue insect a-gathering as well.
According to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly was seen in Japan as the personification of a person's soul; whether they be living, dying, or already dead. One Japanese superstition says that if a butterfly enters your guestroom and perches behind the[bamboo screen, the person whom you most love is coming to see you. However, large numbers of butterflies are viewed as bad omens. When Taira no Masakado was secretly preparing for his famous revolt, there appeared in Kyoto so vast a swarm of butterflies that the people were frightened ? thinking the apparition to be a portent of coming evil.
n Chinese culture two butterflies flying together are a symbol of love. Also a famous Chinese folk story called Butterfly Lovers. The Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi once had a dream of being a butterfly flying without care about humanity, however when he woke up and realized it was just a dream, he thought to himself "Was I before a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly who dreams about being a man?"