The Chaos Butterfly

"'All things by immortal power
Near or far
Hiddenly
To each other linked are
That thou canst not stir a flower
Without toubling of a star.'

Thata is, all contingent chaos butterflies are responsible in some sense for all important events like hurricanes and typhoons-- and newspaper titles. When a typhoon, or a newspaper tycoon, topples an empire, that event is caused by everything, all those butterflies, that preceded it."
--Terry Pratchett's "The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch"

Or maybe it really only takes one butterfly flapping its lazy, misty wings to stir up those hurricanes. Who knows. I'm quite fond of the ideas of giant Chaos Butterflies flapping around, whipping up hurricanes around the planet. For the whimsy, of course, not for the ensuing chaos...

Done in Painter on a photograph of Hurricane Marilyn.