{"id":32252,"date":"2026-02-08T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/?p=32252"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:22:12","slug":"delicate-swirls-peggy-notebaert-nature-museum-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2026\/02\/delicate-swirls-peggy-notebaert-nature-museum-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"“Delicate Swirls” – Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each winter, I make a sacred trek to Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago. They have a wonderful year-round butterfly exhibit, and those colors are the perfect break from the dull nature colors. Even when the Illinois winter blesses us with snow instead of 43 shades of brown and grey, more of nature is still monochromatic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Typically I focus on the butterflies; small pops of color whose unpredictable nature and flight paths make them a challenge to photograph, but this visit, I was inspired by a photo that Sarah took years ago – a simple image of the end of one of the vines. What images could I create in the butterfly house that weren’t of butterflies?<\/span><\/p>\n

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little vines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,3,40,45],"tags":[8647,8675,6565,2052,6518,474,331,1629,306,949,34,8674,247,123,15,87,14,7118,280,832,3394,5340,6517,72,506],"class_list":["post-32252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-unique","category-animals-insects","category-flowers-fireworks","category-nature-sunsets","tag-8647","tag-26-02-01","tag-28-200-f2-8-5-6","tag-70-300mm-f3-5-5-6","tag-a7r3","tag-abstract","tag-animal","tag-ant","tag-blossom","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-il","tag-feb26","tag-february","tag-flower","tag-flowers","tag-green","tag-insect","tag-laona-100mm-f2-8-2x-macro","tag-leaf","tag-leaves","tag-peggy-notebaert-nature-museum","tag-plant","tag-sony","tag-sunlight","tag-vines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32266,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32252\/revisions\/32266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}