A Day of Wings and Flowers

When I was about ten I went to Scotland on a school tour and we were taken to a Butterfly farm. I have never forgotten it, there was hundreds of them. It was amazing, all the butterflies with all their colors and sizes flying around us. It was almost like standing in a shower of confetti watching them all flying around us. When I discovered our local zoo was having a butterfly exhibit during July and August I had to take Keeva along. I was hoping it would be as magical as it was for me. It was as magical.....smaller and more crowded but still beautiful. I was afraid they wouldn't have much but there was a lot of different varieties and colors and seeing their cocoons was amazing. Some even had beautiful gold threads. Unfortunately the cocoons were behind glass so I couldn't get a good picture but I got some nice butterfly snaps. The more colorful ones were harder to get though...they seemed to hang higher up!

Keeva even got to color a butterfly which has since taken center stage on our fridge

They even had a cute little garden with toadstools frogs and caterpillars that the kids could climb all over....fun!