Mourning Cloak Butterflies « Hanbury House

I am real a nerd that at 41,  I still like to play with bugs.   I love butterflies probably the most out of all insects; they are like floating or flying flowers in the garden. A couple of Saturdays ago, like a child, I was outside scooping up caterpillars in the yard, off the tree trunk, on the side of the house, just about everywhere in the backyard.  I secretly brought them inside with a few branches of Chinese Elm and stuck them in a pop up laundry hamper in the back bathroom out of sight.   However, my project was promptly noticed by the kids, and they started regularly checking up on them.  Today, my daughter came running out from the laundry room giggling and shouting "We've got Butterflies! We've got Butterflies!" Mourning Cloak Butterfly