Half Full by Maria Scrivan for August 18, 2020

Yeah, now you’ve turned into a turban!!

I should have gone to the bathroom first.

Clearly, the female of the species….

Another example of social distancing. We humans didn’t expect to be doing it this long either.

Don’t rush..

stay there as long as you can.

Is this a commentary on this blasted lockdown? I see the parallels and echo the sentiment.

I used to catch and feed monarch caterpillars to dissect the chrysalises when I was a kid. Development was dramatically slowed by the constant basement temp, so they wouldn’t emerge naturally until late October. Anywho, if you carefully dissect a caterpillar just before it pupates, you can find butterfly parts rolled up inside. Cut open a chrysalis early on and it’s a soup with those pieces barely recognizable. It took about 2 months for a fully formed butterfly to pull itself together, then another 2 months of growth. The whole process would have been greatly sped up by 80+ degree days.