This morning, I looked out the window and saw a gorgeous butterfly in the flower garden right outside my bedroom. I couldn’t tell immediately if it was a gulf fritillary (which is one of the most common I see) with very distinct markings, or if it was a different fritillary variant. Turned out to be the former, but I got a very lovely photo of it while trying to determine this:

So lovely, in fact, that I realized it might work as a header for this blog. The former header was from 2017, and I was saying around my blogoversary this past February that it was outdated and needed a change. And after all, my blog name is The Zen Leaf, and this is a butterfly chilling on a zinnia petal…

After cropping it down to the right size, it turned out to be perfect. Will I keep it forever? Nah. But right now, it feels right. I really needed this little change.