Emergence of a monarch

This morning we saw a cartoon in our Twitter TimeLine that made us think of something we were privileged to watch about a year ago. Here's the cartoon:

Here's a selection from the series of photos we took of a monarch emerging from its chrysalis:

a green chrysalis

Photo by J. Harrington

turns transparent

Photo by J. Harrington

from which emerges

Photo by J. Harrington

with rumpled wings

Photo by J. Harrington

a monarch butterfly

Photo by J. Harrington

We've had no comparable luck this year but, as we've learned from Twins' and Vikings' fans, we say "Wait 'til next year!"

From Cocoon Forth A Butterfly

From cocoon forth a butterfly
As lady from her door
Emerged—a summer afternoon—
Repairing everywhere,

Without design, that I could trace,
Except to stray abroad
On miscellaneous enterprise
The clovers understood.

Her pretty parasol was seen
Contracting in a field
Where men made hay, then struggling hard
With an opposing cloud,

Where parties, phantom as herself,
To Nowhere seemed to go
In purposeless circumference,
As ’t were a tropic show.

And not withstanding bee that worked,
And flower that zealous blew,
This audience of idleness
Disdained them, from the sky,

Till sundown crept, a steady tide,
And men that made the hay,
And afternoon, and butterfly,
Extinguished in its sea.

Emily Dickinson (1830–86)

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