Butterflies in the Garden
MAY 28, 2008
_Imagine..._
_Thirty-five or so..._
_little butterflies..._
_Kindergarteners,_
_just about to become first-graders..._
_Waiting to zip over the picket fence_
_and into the garden...._
_Dancing_
_through the flowers,_
_buds,_
_and climbing stalks and grasses into the sky..._
_Thirty-five or so..._
_little butterflies..._
_Kindergarteners,_
_just about to become first-graders..._
_Waiting to zip over the picket fence_
_and into the garden...._
_Dancing_
_through the flowers,_
_buds,_
_and climbing stalks and grasses into the sky..._
_These little gems_
_darted here and there..._
_darted here and there..._
finding nectar everywhere they turned...
Filling the garden
with even more sweet joy...
with even more sweet joy...
Buds waiting to open and bloom...
_beauty ever unfolding..._
Butterflies...
dusting the garden with joy and beauty...
dusting the garden with joy and beauty...
_Photos: Lynnette Scolari and Michelle Bellefeuille of Belle Feuille Garden Design take the neighborhood charter art school Kindergarteners through our meadow._
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