Spring is a time of transformation—not just for the earth, but for people as well. The round, bulky coated people we see during the winter become much sleeker in hoodies. You can see people’s faces rather than layers of mufflers wrapped to squinting eyes.
Spring has sprung, and we didn’t even have enough late frost to kill the early flowering vegetation. The poor people in the Rockies have had a hard time of it with their late blizzard, but in the South life’s pleasant.
I’ve been seeing moths and bumblebees on the flowers around my neighborhood, but I’m waiting for the Monarch Butterflies to make their appearance. I’ve heard that a lucky woman in Brentwood, a suburb of Nashville, sighted her first Monarch Butterfly of the year on the 8th of this month. I neither have a Butterfly Garden (though I wish I did) nor much time during the week to go outside and enjoy the fresh greening of the earth. I do have screen savers of flowers and butterflies, but I can’t touch the petals or smell their perfume.
While I’m waiting to see my first Monarch of the season I enjoy a Sarong I have draped over the back of the love seat in my living room. It’s big (over five feet long), and the large butterfly pictured is just waiting for me to drape it over my shoulders or wrap it around my hips and take it outside to see its miniature, live counterpart. As soon as I see my first Monarch the love seat cover transforms to an item of clothing.
All I have to do now is figure out how to transform other things in my life as easily.
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Hey Mary Ann—
You’ve got to teach me how to tie these things in all the configurations that you do. I can never figure out but one way to tie a sarong, but every time I see you you’ve got it tied a different way. I love the big butterfly!