Butterflies!

As part of homeschooling we ordered catepillars and watched them spin up and become chrsalides and then emerge as painted lady butterflies. They were lovely to watch inside, but after reading that they can fly for 1000's of miles in their life span I felt bad for the ladies being stuck inside. They seemed to be bored and weren;t very energetic. Our haphazard feeding may not have helped....So finally one warm enough day we took them outside to release them back to the wild, all four of the survivors (4 out of 5 catepillars made it)

behold, the butterfly garden

we managed to keep them alive in there. somewhat miraculous

they weren't sure how to be free, We got one to attach to a stick, here is Ollie helping the little guy see the flowers

so pretty!

Bruce enticing another one with a pretty flower

success! 

this one was terribly lethargic and we were worried she wouldn't fly off, but eventually she found freedom exilerating and took flight. mission accomplished!