Today began very grey and misty. It changed when the sun came out and a wonderful event happened that we have been anticipating for a few weeks now.
It started when Tracy was given a milkweed plant for her birthday at the end of January. We soon discovered that it had three monarch caterpillars crawling on it. One was bigger and we assumed older and after some days of watching him devour his host plant, he soon made his way to a spot where he created his cocoon. Watching the development has been incredibly fascinating even though I remember watching many videos of the very same process when I was in school. On a much smaller scale it is as fascinating as watching your own children develop. Seeing the incredible changes that happen and feeling so overwhelmed trying to protect them from the dangers that you know may happen to them (see Mr. Gecko who also noticed our new friend).
