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Our butterfly "hatched" today!

My brother and I put it in the sun under the pineapple sage plant which is covered in red flowers to let its wings dry. We just saw it fly off, so apparently they're working fine.

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Last spring, I put some pretty purple ivy stuff in my window boxes. Ornamental sweet potato vines, the tags said. Being a stupid city person, I assumed that this meant they were just pretty ivy vines that resembled sweet potato vines, whatever those looked like.

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I did not take this photo -- my phone camera is such crap, it could not possibly do justice to something so pretty -- but my brother and I found one that looks EXACTLY like THISIt's a monarch butterfly cocoon. And now I see why they call it a monarch -- its cocoon looks like it's crowned and speckled with real gold. The one we found was hanging ( Read more... )

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