Clustered

Monarch Butterflies wintering over.

I was in Nelson for a workshop today. When it finished I went to the spot where I saw monarchs a couple of weeks ago but there were none there. *sad face*

So I decided to check out the gardens where I had once seen them wintering over (many years ago). I'd been back a number of times since but never found the tree again - it was so long ago that I just couldn't remember where the tree was in the gardens. I couldn't find it again today either until I tracked some flying butterflies back to it.

As it happened, when I did find them, they were clustered on 3 different trees that were grouped together. This cluster here truly isn't even 5 percent of the mass of them. Here in my blipfolio they are on a different tree.

The sky was unfortunately uniformly grey and flat today so I just couldn't work out how to get any images that showed their colour without completely blowing out the sky and blurring the moving butterflies - so I'll definitely be going back on a blue sky day to see if I can find them again.

NOTE: Thanks so much for your comments, stars and hearts on yesterday's reflection time. It was one of those unplanned for moments that came out right.