It was the flash of orange
in slow motion
that took me down to the garden
again today
to try to catch a Monarch.
The two were hard to catch with my camera.
It was high noon--bad light.
It was really windy--bad exposure time.
And they were not coming
close to me--bad focus.
I was trying to get a good shot of the dot pattern.
But this one definitely has the right pattern.
The line pattern goes to the lower wing edges
It's not a Queen because it has line patterns
to the edge on the upper wing
And it's not a Painted Lady
like the last one I mis-identified.
I think I finally saw Monarch butterflies
in my garden for the first time in 5 years!
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