About two weeks ago I was picking strawberries on the side of my deck in a space you can barely walk in and noticed a flower or weed growing back by the fence. I let it grow to see what it was. I thought maybe some kind of wildflower. It bloomed when we got back from our trip on Monday and it had a faded, mauve color of tiny flowers and I dismissed it and decided to let it alone as you couldn’t see it unless you went back there.

Earlier this spring, I wanted a butterfly bush to lure butterflies to my yard. They grow too big for my tiny yard. I got some other plants that are suppose to attract butterflies. A couple of weeks ago I saw my first butterfly. It was white. When we came back from our trip the other day I saw a blackish-blue one but it wasn’t a swallowtail. Today I saw a white one, a dark bluish one and a Monarch all flutter around in my garden.

I read a blog today that’s on my blogroll that showed pictures of milkweed. There are so many different types but her pictures looked like what was in the corner of my yard. I went back and looked today to see if I saw anything crawling on it. There was some holes where some kind of insect had eaten the leaf. Could it be? Yes, I have a couple of eggs and a teeny, tiny caterpillar. I enlarged the photo and it looks like a Monarch to me. It is so small you can’t hardly see it. This picture is greatly enlarged. I picked the leaf and added a few more to a jar because I thought the birds might eat them. There are two eggs, I think, on one of the leaves. I’m not sure what to do. I’ll have to look up how to raise them. It’s exciting. It reminds me of that feeling of being a kid. I’ll be really disappointed if it isn’t a Monarch and it is some kind of moth or grub. But I see stripes!