Have you ever been driving and then all of a sudden think to yourself ‘what the heck is going on?’
Well if you haven’t had this discussion with yourself I guess I don’t know what to say. This kinda happens to me a lot 🙂
And that’s exactly what happened to me tonight after work. I was driving home and all of a sudden I realized that there were things on the road. Now at first I wasn’t quite sure what they were. So I’m driving and wondering what I was seeing and then I realized just what it was. They were Monarch Butterflies all over the highway. Seriously how cool is that? But then when I realized what they were I kinda panicked. I didn’t want to kill them or even hurt them. The reason is because I was at a meeting the other day and found out that the Monarch Butterfly is only about a breath away from being on the endangered species list and because a billion of the Monarch’s population has vanished – we need to pay attention. So now that they are on the road I’m trying my best to be careful not to hit them or the oncoming cars. Which isn’t a good idea either!
I ended up stopping when I got to my gravel road to take a picture of the butterflies and a local farmer was driving by and also stopped to see what I was doing. I’m pretty sure that it’s not a common thing for someone to stop and take a picture of a butterfly on the highway/gravel road – well other than probably me doing it. While I was visiting with him he said that his yard is so full of them that he had to be careful where he was driving when he left. And do you know the coolest thing was that while we were talking they were flying around us and trying to land. Yea, pretty cool.
We talked about a time around 10 to 15 years ago when these Monarchs were migrating down south to Mexico for the winter and how lucky our neighborhood was when they filled all our trees with literally bunches of the butterflies. I took a picture of this when it happened (shocked right?) but the picture just couldn’t capture how it looked.
So here is my pictures of the butterflies that I took on the highway on my way home tonight and I’m sure hoping that there will be many more of these Monarchs to come yet this fall.
