Saturday, August 7, 2010

the butterfly project

All summer long I have enjoyed herbs & zinnias in my kitchen windowsill...

herbs&zinnia

When we went to the lake for our staycation the jar fennel drank all its water, but we did find a nice surprise...

catepillar

A catepillar had made a home...and didn't seem to mind that the fennel was dead as a doornail!  For several days he crawled back and forth from the fennel to a small pot of ivy [also in the windowsill].  He finally got into cocoon postition on a stem of ivy...

catepillargettingready

The next morning he was in his cocoon...

cocoon

About 12 days later, this is what we found...

butterfly

A beautiful butterfly!

1 comment:

Sue said...

That's lovely. I'll bet the kiddos loved it! How clever you were to document it.