Pretty Butterflies Among The Flowers

This afternoon after lunch we used the special admission ticket to go into a small wire-meshed enclosure just outside the ION building, to look at the pretty butterflies flying and lighting upon the flowers.

 Most of them were dark colored with a few exceptions. 

 The smaller yellow butterfly was flitting all over and it was difficult to capture a snap shot.

 The visit was limited to 15 minutes per person as the enclosure was small.

However, most of us just wanted to take pictures of the butterflies and once we had done that we just left.  It was pretty warm inside the enclosure with the sun streaming in.

Nevertheless it was a good experience to be in there among the lovely flowers and pretty butterflies.

Blood Moon or Total Lunar Eclipse

On the night of April 4, 2015 a total lunar Eclipse took place and it was clear enough for one of my church members to snap a picture of it from Agape Hill, Penampang, Sabah.  Agape Hill is where the Agape Methodist Church is situated.

The eclipse occurs when the moon is completely covered by the Earth’s shadow.    However small amounts of light passing through our atmosphere causes the moon to have a reddish glow.  Hence the term Blood Moon came about.

Blood moons are associated with Biblical prophecies of  imminent hard times.

This April 4^th Total Lunar Eclipse is the third in a series of four Total Lunar Eclipses known as the lunar tetrad.  The first two occurred on April 15 2014 and October 8, 2014.  The 4^th and last eclipse will occur on September 28, 2015.

The next lunar tetrad of the 21^st century will begin with a total lunar eclipse on April 25, 2032, still a long way in the future. 

So if you’ve missed sighting this one, you can watch out for the next one on September 28, this year.