In April 2013, I wanted to do something as a tribute for my mom's birthday. She would've been 51, but she had passed away the fall before and my brother and I were still so sad and missing her. My mom loved butterflies so I decided to order a live caterpillar kit from Insect Lore and release a batch of butterflies into the world in memory of my mom.
If you have never raised caterpillars, I will tell you that they show up in little cups with some food in the bottom. After a couple of weeks, they go into a cocoon. You put all of the cups into a pop up net called a Butterfly Pavilion. When the butterflies are ready to pop out of the cocoon, they start flying around inside the butterfly pavilion. A few of the cocoons never hatched, but out of the 25 in our kit, I think we had about 18 fluttering butterflies to release. On release day, I invited my brother Jeremy, and my husband, also named Jeremy to open the pavilion and start releasing the butterflies so that I could photograph them. We set them out into the world near our tulips, even though butterflies don't really care much for tulips, it made for pretty pictures. Also, for the record, this is the prettiest batch of tulips we have ever grown....since then, the tulips have never looked quite this good. The butterfly release ended up being a really funny photo shoot of two Jeremys. Pictures I will treasure forever and my mom would've loved too.
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