The concept of a butterfly flying at night is impposible as they use solar radiation to elevate their body temperature. If there temperature drops below 86 degrees Fahrenheit they will fall from the sky. One moonlit summer evening as the tide falls, on the seashore on the south coast of England, I fly my butterfly kite. She is caught in the light of a two-million candle-power torch, a ghostly presence as she flutters in the night sky.

I feel pleasure as I feel the force of nature through the kite string as my butterfly rides the wind that keeps her elevated. When it drops will she too fall from the sky?I am transfixed like Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly - he is bewitched with Butterfly’s innocence, charm and beauty, like a butterfly fluttering around and then landing with silent grace so beautiful “that I must have her, even though I injure her butterfly wings”.