A Butterfly Incident

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:59:59 -800

Saturday afternoon, I was on my way to a barbeque at an acquaintance's farm in
the hills overlooking Banks, OR when I spied a
butterfly
trapped in the southwestern corner of my garage. The
butterfly was mostly yellow and black, with bits of brown and blue mixed in for
good measure; how it got into the garage I have no idea. It had been several
days since I'd opened the garage doors for anything, so either it had flown in
quite a long time before that, or maybe it had crawled in as a caterpillar?
In any case, it was flapping around like mad trying to escape back to the real
world. Though I tried to shoo the butterfly out the (now open) back door, he
wouldn't have any of it, and continued to flit around the door into the glass
window. Thus, I got quite a few pictures of it before I finally had to push it
out the door into the backyard. After that it flew away. I wonder if it has
been eaten by now.