Sunrise or Sunset
There are different beginnings just as there are many endings. The external doesn't make the difference in a person's ending as much as a person's character. When all is said and done I want to be an honest person, with an honest life. I want to encourage others to reach for the best that's within them.
It is important to realize that the best things in life are not things we can buy. You can't buy good character or a loving heart, the kiss of a child, or butterfly wings fluttering. You can't buy grace, or salvation, or the favor of God.
When we, the kids in my family, especially my cousins and I were young we would take a mason jar and capture fireflies (or lightening bugs) in the clear glass jars, put a layer of wax paper over the mouth of the jar and poke a few holes in it, or maybe just cover it with our hand. We would take them inside and watch them for awhile lighting up the jar. We didn't keep them long before we let them fly out and into the dark night.
One autumn we had pleasant weather even into the late fall. We woke up one morning and it had turned cool. As I took a load of laundry out to hang on the clothes line I found a Monarch butterfly too cold to fly. As it warmed up outside so did the butterfly. I wondered if it found its way south to where Monarchs migrate from cold weather. Some days I feel like a butterfly caught in the cold.
In the country we are treated to some beautiful sights. Several years in a row we found what we believed was a Cecropia moth. These moths are very large and we thought not this far north.
I wanted to share with you this beautiful moth and I'm hopeful this link will come through so you can see it. Ours was not this Cecropia, it was something similar but on a smaller scale.
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/cecropia-moth-largest-moth-north-america
When I was young one of my favorite books to read was an old book (found in my grandparents upstairs boxes of books) by Gene Stratton-Porter called Laddie
It wasn't until my children were born and older that I found out Gene Stratton-Porter had written many books and that she was an artist and a naturalist. One of her most famous books was Freckles, and also Girl of the Limberlost. Her goal was to teach the public about the many beautiful creatures in our fascinating world.
