Lettuce Share

I’m expecting a monarch metamorphosis at any moment in my laundry room!  It’s all happening so quickly!  This is yesterday’s chrysalis:

Here’s today’s chrysalis:

The pending butterfly birth has had me giddy since this morning – the air feels warmer, my Christmas slippers are perfectly broken in, the grapefruit are ripe, what a great day!  Or so I thought until the incessant squawking began to pierce through the sound of my new Phantom Planet CD.  Loud and persistent, it forced me to the back door, camera in hand.  Here’s what I found.

As if the sky alone wasn’t dreary enough, all the birds were black.  There were more than I could capture; flocks flew away with the sound of the door, but suddenly I’m chilly and my slippers feel snug.  Let’s hope my day doesn’t turn into this…