Yes! Outside the main bedroom there’s a stand of milkweed stalks. They seem to be flourishing this spring, a currently have clusters of tiny tight blossoms.
I glanced out the window late Monday morning, May 20, and there it was: a monarch, perched on one of the blossom clusters, wings folded, probably slurping milkweed nectar.
I reached for the phone camera. It takes a few fumbling seconds to bring up the camera, and a few more to focus — and in that interval, the Monarch opened its wings, circled up over the milkweed, and sailed off across the neighbor’s fence.
We haven’t seen a Monarch In The Yard since 2021.
Today, some minutes later the Monarch came fluttering back, as if toying with and tantalizing us, but didn’t pause to perch, so I have no photo.
But my phone has a few from the last of the Good Days, like this one, from late October 2016, just a week or so before the electoral earthquake . . . ..
Milkweed is just starting to grow here. I’ll keep a sharp eye out for that monarch to make its way up here in about a month. I don’t remember seeing any last year, so I’m excited!