"Someday, I will be a beautiful butterfly, and then everything will be better."
~ Heimlich ~ "Bugs Life"
I have always been very fond of flowers and have a few that I cater to more than others, this year being no exception. I always have a rose bush that sits on my deck for me to look at daily, nurture, smell the sweet fragrance and cut a few of it's beautiful flowers to display on my table.
As I was tending to my choice of rose this year, I found a black spot on one of the newly opened blooms and I went to pull it off thinking this was an odd spot for a blemish, it wiggled and pulled away. I instantly yelped and pulled my hand away, then after carefully pulling the petals back I found this cute little face looking back up at me. As I slowly moved my hand back to it wanting to pull it off and look at it, it wiggled back more into hiding. I know they can't talk but I imagined it asking me to please leave it alone and promising not to eat the petals.
Part of me still wanted to pick it up, just a like I did when I was a little girl, and find a jar to keep it in so that some day it would grow to be a beautiful butterfly. Oh the joys of the simple kid life and the imagination that we can still carry.
I walked away leaving it behind to grab my camera, it crawled out again for me to get this picture; it was a mutual agreement you might say...I get the picture for the cute memory and it got to live as long as it wanted (or as long and the flower lived) on the beautiful rose that sat so perfectly for it to perch as a makeshift home.
I checked again the next day and it was still there, but that darn wind we have around here decided to end the our meetings the following day and the caterpillar was thrown from the flower and the petals also lost their vigor and beauty.
Fortunately for me, there is always another flower, or more, opening often to replace the ones that are no longer.
Here's to a beautiful Monday, hope to hear from you soon!
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