A beautiful visitor

A painted lady landed on our "picture window" today. The window is almost always warm with sunshine but it is Nov 6 an the temps have been below 30 at night but there she was - a bit slow but as beautiful as spring. On October 9th we released the last of our "butterfly heard" after our last butterfly program of the season - there were two painted ladies in that group and I am assuming that she is one of them. still to find her 28 days latter is special. She looked in very good condition no matter where she came from. Folks who know us know that we consider butterflies a gift and messenger from God so you may appreciate just how excited we were.

Last week the James Stricker family called to report the emergence of a butterfly from it's chrysalis. I hurried to their play and found a beautifully pristine black swallowtail - got lots of pics (see above) They had found the cats on there dill plants and brought them inside. Had they been left outside the black swallowtails would have wintered in the chrysalis emerging in the spring.

In the above pics the young man with the hat and the butterfly on his finger is Peter Strickler and the young man with the butterfly on his face is a guest of the Strickler's named Ben.

HAPPY NATURING !!!!!!