Spring and summer in the country.
The beautiful butterflies flutter about, laying eggs on everything that will sit still for it, eggs which will hatch into very hungry caterpillars that will eat the socks off your best veg.
Ahem.
The sweet birds flit about, singing their songs, getting into rumbles with the squirrels over the sunflower seeds, adding brilliant color and the miracle of flight to our humdrum, earthbound lives.
Well, let me tell you: It takes nerves of steel to live in the country. Because this.
Birds + butterflies = bits.
Birds be all like, “I know how you feel about them caterpillars, so I ate the caterpillar bits and saved the bling for you. You’re welcome.”
~sigh~
I’m posting today at Fatal Foodies on a plate of vegan goodness so delicious I forgot there wasn’t any meat.
A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: Which would you rather have, if you had to choose: birds or butterflies? Why?
MA
Jane
July 21, 2015 at 8:59amSince birds (like cats) are perfect ceatures, I can’t really line up against the butterfly killers. Er…
OK, practically, the winged stage of the butterfly is extremely fleeting (except for monarchs, but that’s a whole different story!) compared to the rest of its life cycle. Once the lovely beauties have laid eggs, they are fair game.
Marian Allen
July 21, 2015 at 12:54pmPoor butterfly! What an opera that would make! …Oh, wait….
Holly Jahangiri
July 21, 2015 at 8:45amBirds be like, “We’ve been watching how the cats do it, and see how you humans fall for that sh**…we want in on the action.”
Marian Allen
July 21, 2015 at 12:52pmThey already get all the sunflower seeds the squirrels will leave them. hmph!
Dan
July 21, 2015 at 7:30amIt’s so hard to choose. I’d prefer if the birds at the caterpillars of the moths that eat the garden but not the pretty butterflies that we like to watch.
Marian Allen
July 21, 2015 at 8:00amYeah! Good idea! Make it so, Number One.