Happy Thanksgiving!

I was rolling down the ramp off our deck a week or two ago and I almost ran right into a Monarch butterfly, sitting on the Verbena which normally brushes my shoulder at this point.  This late in the season I both hoped it would make it before winter, and felt thankful that the powers that be brought me such beauty!

the butterfly only fluttered a few blooms away and landed again, spreading its wings.  It looked newly emerged, clean and untattered.

So I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving weekend.  

And for all my American readers, your turn will come!