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Saturday, July 17, 2021

Raising Monarch Butterflies II


Monarch Poem: Milkweed in the garden scrubbed to the nubs. Caterpillars climb stems eating all that's green. People saving Monarchs we should be clubs. One sneaks in the house causing quite a scene. I've been raising monarch butterflies for a long time.
When I lived on the ranch I had an acre of four varieties of milkweed,
it haunts me that the new owner failed to water the plants.
Some chrysalis were hidden in my potted plants when I moved
and happily the butterflies followed me. In the video one sneaks into the house and I set her free with a paper cone.
Bouquets for your enjoyment, a painting by Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez,
and butterflies collected at a Hopi reservation.

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