Metamorphosis

A childhood habit, I always scan the milkweed for Monarch caterpillars. I am surprised to find one this late in the year.



And by nightfall, it has begun its metamorphosis.



In a couple of weeks, it will emerge from its chrysalis a transformed creature and begin its long journey south.

My own journey and subsequent transformation, I fear, will not end until many generations of this Monarch's offspring have come and gone.