Feb 24
Flutterby, butterfly.
My mother and sister got me this silver ring on a trip to Poland a few years back. While I’m not a butterfly-loving hippie, I really like the way its been wrought.
I need to dip it in some silver cleaner because I can’t get into the crevasses to polish up the tarnish. For the purposes of the photograph, though, I think it’s OK. It gives it depth.
And just as a matter of dispelling myth, the original name for a butterfly was not a flutterby. From a handy-dandy etymological dictionary;
No tag for this post.From Middle English butterflye, from Old English butorflēoge : butor, butere, butter; see butter + flēoge, fly; see fly2.
