Magic All Around

Yesterday in the garden, we planted 12 more berry vines. I think that brings up our count to 47 total. My husband was on the tractor working the leaves we had piled mixed with manure into the soil. He was putting gypsum down as he plowed. I was sitting watching when I saw this butterfly struggle up to a limb of a tree.
It had come out of it's cocoon. It made it to a branch to sit and dry off and warm it's wings.

I watched at it tottered out on this limb fluttering and sort of jumping, it's wings not yet developed enough to fly.

It was way above my head, so I had to go find a box to stand on to get close. It was so still and it was so out in the open I was afraid of the birds.

I liked the little blue dots and then the bottom of the wings looked like old lace. Each pattern perfectly spaced.
My husband on the tractor, told me later he couldn't figure out why I was taking so many pictures of a old leaf on the tree, because from a distance, it did look like a old leaf. Isn't that like life, it is only when we are up close and really looking do we begin to see.

It has expanded it's wings and I thought that maybe I was starting to disturb this very private moment so I thought I would get down from my box and leave it alone.
I walked away to look of more signs of spring and I found that one of the ash trees is already getting it's little helicopter seeds and is starting to put out the little buds as a precursor to leaves.

 This is really early for the ash trees. They didn't even loose all of their leaves until late December. They barely had time to rest this year.
All of this and I forgot to take pictures of the new berries. Our son has berry vines at his house and they multiplied so he took 12 little plants and gave them to us. We were thrilled. To buy that many would have been about 50 dollars. They are thorn-less boysenberry's.
I hope you have a lovely Sunday, filled with rest.
~Kim~