Caterpillars Have Leaves for Umbrellas!

It has been raining for 4 days. It stopped today for 10 seconds. OK. That is an exaggeration. It actually stopped for 1 minute and 15 seconds. In that brief amount of time, Michael and I took the opportunity to photograph a family of caterpillars that have taken up residency on our milkweed plant. The plant was an incredibly thoughtful gift from Gaga.




In case you don't already know this, the milkweed plant is the host for Monarch butterflies. The Monarch lives its entire life cycle on the plant. Hence, the reason that there are 7 caterpillars eating their way into butterfly-dom right outside on our deck!!


This is a very important thing when you are 7 years old.

We had an interesting and somewhat stressful debate about whether or not it would be necessary to bring the milkweed plant indoors to save the caterpillars from drowning (7 year old opinion) OR leave it outside because God, in His infinite wisdom, already took care of that problem a zillion years ago (old, cranky mother opinion). I won. HANG ON for dear life, caterpillars....




Note: Now is a good time to simply appreciate the photos and ignore or disregard how distractingly dirty the 7 year old's fingernail are....

Gotta go get my paddle!

Good night,

~J