If you have been following my blog for awhile, you know that over the summer I planted some butterfly-friendly flowers to attract butterflies to my yard.  My friend gave me several small milkweed plants, food for monarchs, which I painstakingly tended.  They did well and I occasionally checked them for caterpillars or chrysalis’. I thought it was too late in the year, but look what I found yesterday!

Monarch Caterpillar

I think he will make a chrysalis in a few days and shortly a butterfly will emerge.  I’m on the lookout for more; we’ll see.  I have also been saving seeds from the seed pods to plant in the Spring.  Maybe next summer I’ll have a garden full of butterflies to photograph!