The Special Monarch Butterfly

It’s been a l-o-n-g time since I’ve posted on my blog! Lots of traveling, leading a gypsy life, my husband and I realized we’re more nesters than gypsies. We’ve settled again in a new place near the incredible Pacific Ocean. Of course, I continued my creative endeavors, soaking in all the places we visited, taking notes, and sketching in my journals. Because a creative must create, create, create!

Right smack in the middle of our back yard and in an easterly, westerly direction, butterflies flutter by or stop and flitter about in our garden before they resume their route. Because many of them grace us with their beauty several times a day, we named it Butterfly Highway.

The special butterfly carried a fellow butterfly with two of its hind legs. Because I gathered the fellow butterfly might have been injured, the special butterfly’s act of kindness moved me to tears.

I thought of how we humans could learn from this. Fellow species members helping one another. No money exchange. No scheduling involved.

Today I researched why butterflies would carry each other. Answer: They’re mating!

Silly, sappy me. I should have looked it up yesterday. Ignorance is not bliss. This is why we must, no matter how smart we think we are, continue to educate ourselves! But then I wouldn’t have this story to tell.