Metamorphosis

Wow! Okay, I've been AWOL for a little while. It's been a busy, busy couple of weeks. The garden is in full force and Bill and I are getting ready to take a mini trip out of town - so I'll be missing in action again for the next four or five days!

However, I did stop and smell the roses, or in this case when cleaning out my perennial bed I stopped to admire this beautiful cocoon. I almost hacked the poor thing down before I noticed it. Whew! If you look quite closely you can actually see the orange and black butterfly wings inside. I figured it would be emerging soon and I was really hoping to see that.

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HOWEVER...No such luck. I checked back the next day and the butterfly had already emerged and disappeared. I guess he was AWOL too.

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So as spring has sprung, so too has my time clock - just picture little gears popped out all over the place! However, the garden in its unending work is also an unending joy and respite from the craziness that goes on out there in this world. So gardeners rejoice - it's time to get out there and grow!

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Butterfly butterly

in your cocoon

Emerge you did

and oh so soon!