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
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turns transparent
Photo by J. Harrington
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from which emerges
Photo by J. Harrington
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with rumpled wings
Photo by J. Harrington
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a monarch butterfly
Photo by J. Harrington
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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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