Monarch Butterflies
Just recently, I mentioned Monarch butterflies in one of these blog posts. As we were going into a building on Friday afternoon, a low growing, flowering plant near the entrance was being visited by a Monarch butterfly. It was SO beautiful! I remarked that we never have the camera with us at such times!
Well, yesterday morning, that situation was remedied. Jim was out back in the garden, pulling up the tomato plants that had been hit by heavy frost the night before. He then decided to come around to the front of the house to pick up “trash” on the sidewalk. Lots of people throw candy wrappers and cigarette boxes and used beverage containers, and other irritating litter there, as we try to keep things picked up. On his way past a stone container he’d constructed last year, that contains three Chyrsanthemum plants, he spotted a Monarch butterfly, among the honey bees and bumble bees. No, wait! There were two butterflies, no, three, …and then, no, four!!
He raced into the house to alert us and grabbed his camera on the way out. My niece and I went out, just in time, to see these magnificent creatures. She told us that during butterfly migration, there are huge numbers of them in a tree, right near her sister’s home in northern California.
I never tire of seeing butterflies.
Butterflies were a symbol of hope especially during the Great Depression, and therefore, they show up on many a quilt and coverlet from that era. In some cultures, butterflies symbolize the human soul.
Have a great day!
Pat
