PrettyTiny Film Company Pic A Week *2019* (#.....52!! Dec. 24)

[Alliecat]

Thanks, everyone! It's a challenging location with late-day light, because I find a patch of sun but by the time I get model & tripod set up & shot framed... it's moved. Then there all the pieces of deadfall to fall over. At least the mosquitoes were tolerable that day.

What an interesting hobby of butterfly growing! How did you stumble into that one?

Brought my first caterpillar home when I was 10. Dad & I found it on a walk & didn't know what it was. When we found out, & learned that the whole transformation would take only about 3 weeks, we were intrigued. 2 more followed that year, & we were hooked. I had them almost every year after that till we left Ontario; I'd collect dozens along the highways after school. After some years without, I can now get them from the neighbour's butterfly garden which has grown big enough to support them. I got into tagging after hearing a talk about it from a butterfly collector.
I got a lot of mileage out of it for school science projects, & Mom shot quite a few ribbon-winning closeups of them for the camera club.

This week's pic is for the Dal House photo/haiku challenge, but I'm gonna put it here too because why not


"every book a door
whole new worlds of adventure
where shall we go next?"