Well, I lost one to a wasp/something or other before the poor little dude had a chance to even consider being a pupa, let alone a butterfly, and I lost two more to spiders (one a very small spider actually seen fleeing the scene of the crime) somewhere between the point of “J” and “chrysalis”, but I have at least one pupa!

Here are a couple of J’s.

Here’s my one chrysalis, taken early this morning (hence crappy lighting). He must’ve just made it because even with a crappy photo, I can still see his baby stripes inside. Anyway, I’m at work, but I’ll look when I get home to see whether I have any more. There was one making a J on the siding of the house beside the place we like to sit on the patio to admire the yard. Hopefully he got the chance to make a chrysalis before a hungry predator spotted him.

Here are some random fall crocus. Poor things are in such an ugly spot; they’ll be better next year after I move them…somewhere that isn’t the muddy bit on the north side of the patio where nothing grows except moss and weeds. Why on earth the old bird planted everything over there is utterly baffling to me.