Butterflies in a field of flowers

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Butterflies

Most everyone knows I love butterflies.  Pictures, clothes, avatars:

 

And rainbows added in sometimes :)

 

I'll save the rainbow story for another time, though.

 

2 days ago I was walking our dog Mimi (she has butterflies on her blog, too!) on the sidewalk outside  our house and a beautiful blue butterfly was lying there, one wing on the sidewalk.  I don't know if it was dead but I was sure it was dying.  I have never seen a butterfly near our house, especially not one so beautiful.  I didn't want to take a picture because I didn't want to somehow invade his privacy.

He was the most beautiful blue and looked like a monarch butterfly.  I don't even know if they have those here in my area so I thought maybe someone brought him here from somewhere else.

He looked something like this, though:

The day before yesterday, I decided it would be ok to take a picture and when I went out, he'd turned all black :(  Later in the day, someone/thing had broken his poor wings and scattered them over the grass.

But today, I saw another butterfly - an amber monarch:

 

Maybe all those flowers DH has been planting all these years are finally attracting butterflies and I'll see them every day.

What a treat!

Yet Another Blog

Why in the world am I starting another blog?  I can hardly keep up with the ones I have.

So...we'll see about this one.  It's supposed to be about web design, how I got involved with it, tips and tricks, whatever.  Something different from Cushing's all the time!

It will also be nice not to talk about kidney cancer, post news items, other stuff.

Maybe this one can be just about me - and the ever present butterflies that seem to show up in everything I do.

I like to think of myself as a butterfly.  I didn't finally emerge from my cocoon until much later than most but I did it with the help and encouragement of a very special friend.  My friend also got me started in web design, which branched way past the original intent of a small page for my music studio.

If I knew then what I know now, I probably wouldn't have taken those first few steps into the land of HTML codes.