Butterfly Whisperer

The header photo on this blog shows a Monarch Butterfly.  Each year they migrate over the ocean to a place called St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge on our own North Florida coastline.  A day trip there will allow you to see hundreds literally dripping off the flowering bushes along the bay.  But a few renegades always make their way to Tallahassee, and cling to our gardens too.  It is exquisite to see.  My granddaughter can actually catch them, without harm.  I call her the butterfly whisperer.  It takes patience and quiet movements, but she reaches out and clasps them by their closed wings, only to let them go moments later.