In Flight

Caught these monarchs flitting about the flowers at Loose Park. None to be found in the designated butterfly garden but then I stumbled across these beauties.

A Key Solution

When couples attach their love lock to the old Red Bridge, they have traditionally tossed the key into the Blue River below to lock their love. But that turns out to be bad for the environment. So now they have a box for the keys. In the future an artist will melt the collected keys and shape the molten metal into a monarch butterfly sculpture. The organization Monarchs on the Move has taken on the project in conjunction with the Kansas City parks department. Apparently the river's ecosystem is fragile and important to the healthy migration of monarch butterflies in their annual treks to and from Mexico.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article131979444.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article131979444.html#storylink=cpy

They're Here!

The return of the monarchs was being celebrated yesterday at an open house at Foley Hall on the KU campus. The tree was full of monarchs but they were high enough it was hard to get a good photo. They hold the open house to provide information about creating Monarch waystations and to show off the butterfly and pollinator garden created and maintained by the Douglas County Master Gardeners.