Transformation

Nothing is quite as surreal as watching real transformation before your very eyes. Nature is everything. Fascinating. Beautiful. Unreal. Science, but not fiction. Beyond amazing. Powerful. Pure creation. Truly stunning. One of my favorite subjects to make images of. Mother nature, you rule! We have a love for these little caterpillars who fight to become butterflies. They fight all sorts of other critters who want to make them hosts for their own eggs. So we create a "safe" environment in our kitchen! Our kitchen table is taken over right now with 7 caterpillars who are very, very hungry! This butterfly is the first to transform, the others will be getting ready to form their chrysalis in a few days. Then over the course of a few weeks, will liquefy and re-structure as a butterfly. SAY WHAAA?!?! It's real people. Nature is awesome.

This stage always makes me wonder in amazement at how there can be specks of gold on this creature's case. Like gold leaf.

I was so excited to finally possibly get to see the emergence, but I walked away for a minute.

When I came back... I missed it yet again!!! Next time I won't even blink.

Over the next 10- 15 minutes, the butterfly's wings filled and grew as she/he hung there on the empty clear chrysalis. You could see the expansion happening right before your eyes. So cool.