Better Late Than Never

 

I took this photo of a Monarch caterpillar in the garden in 2017.  Don't have a good photo of the ones I've seen this year, but at last they are here!

Much later than previous years,  at least three weeks later, the caterpillars are showing up in the garden.

They lift my spirits  in the midst of suicide bomb killings in Afghanistan, as thousands of Afghans and Americans rush to the airport to leave the country, now that our soldiers are leaving.

So much is wrong and divided and hostile and downright crazy in the world, but still we have caterpillars.