Scary Wings
I took the kids to Magic Wings today, a lovely butterfly conservatory. Unfortunately, I have a bit of a bug phobia going back to childhood. (I’ll post some photos of my little Junebug book about the development of my phobia in the next week.)
I finally got myself psyched up to go into the conservatory. But there were some not so welcoming hissing cockroaches in the entry. This did not set the mood well for me.
Once inside, the panicky feeling continued. I guess I must of let a few yelps out since an employee approached me. She said that some patrons feel more comfortable holding a butterfly predator. She came back with this.
Do you think, a grown woman, would carry this around with her for the next hour, holding it up to her face every time a butterfly appeared to be swooping in? You betcha!
At some point the employee came over to the kids and said if they wanted butterflies to approach them, they should get away from me. Here’s a visitor that Ella named Cream.
The kids had an amazing time. And we learned a lot about butterflies and their eggs and how Ella could make a career of tending butterflies.
In knitting news, the stranded bag is coming along. I think I have at least 30 rows of the pattern knit now. I’ll show progress photos tomorrow.
