Tiny Changes - Monarch Caterpillar

 “A tiny change today brings a 

dramatically different tomorrow.”

 - Richard Bach 

 This image captured on September 5, 2024 documents my first of year (2024) sighting of a Monarch Caterpillar - found along the Huckleberry Trail between Plantation Road and Hethwood. 

I was truly fortunate to have captured his shadow too!

Monarch Caterpillar

"Look closely. The beautiful may be small." 

~ Immanuel Kant  

Tiny Monarch Caterpillar - this is my first of the year sighting. - Deerfield Trail, Blacksburg, Virginia 

06-30-19 

 Each weekend I try to get out and inspect the milkweed that grows in and around the many greenways and trails in Blacksburg. I was rewarded with my first sighting of a tiny monarch caterpillar - who I hope grows up to become a beautiful monarch butterfly.

Monarch Caterpillar - Living on the Leaves

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. 

~ A.R. Ammons

Monarch Caterpillar on its host plant, Milkweed.

Print Available - HERE 

Monarch Caterpillar

"Life is a voyage of discovery." 

 ~ Unknown  

Print Available - HERE

Monarch Caterpillar - Digital Watercolor

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. 

- Mary Oliver

Available - HERE 

Miscellaneous

Male Cardinal - Blowing in the Wind :)

Water Lily and Reflection

Caterpillar (but I don't know what kind)

American Goldfinch - Female

miscellaneous

mis·cel·la·neous 

adjective  

including many things of different kinds

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. 

~ Faith Baldwin

Hope you have a Great Day!

Monarch Caterpillar Found!

Print Available - HERE 

Where the determination is, 
the way can be found. 

 George S. Clason

Awaiting Transformation

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. 

 ~ Saigyo

New Beginnings

 Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

~ Eckhart Tolle

~ Tiny Monarch Caterpillar in the Milkweed leaves ~ 

You Can

You Can

~ Stephen Richards

Monarch Caterpillar from 06-09-12 - stretching to reach another leaf.

Compassion

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. 

Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears.

 Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. 

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Tussock Moth Caterpillar Close-Up

We are all in the process of becoming. 

~ Audre Lorde

Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillar Gateway Trail, Blacksburg Virginia

Print Available - HERE 

Keep Climbing

When you reach the top, keep climbing.

- Proverb

Motivational Print Version Available  
- HERE 

Monarch Caterpillar - Focus on Potential

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

Alan Loy McGinnis

I hope this little guy lived up to his potential and became a beautiful Monarch Butterfly! 

Monarch Caterpillar - Seen through the Leaf

Monarch Caterpillar seen through the Leaf - Munching on the Milkweed

~ A Closer Look ~

The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential. 
~ Mychal Wynn

Caterpillar - Woolly White Wonder

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

~Albert Einstein

  Pandapas Pond - Blacksburg Virginia

Monarch Caterpillar - Look at those Legs!

More of my Monarch Caterpillars
HERE 

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
-Marian Wright Edelman

At first I thought of caterpillar "feet" and then I saw this diagram of a caterpillar's anatomy - HERE - and I see that they are legs. The lighting isn't all that great in this pic - but I thought it was cool how he was holding on upside down.

Monarch Caterpillar - Living Among the Leaves

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

~Seneca

Available - HERE 

Caterpillar Courage

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. 
~ e.e. cummings

Orange and Black Caterpillar

 Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. 
 ― Dr. Seuss 

 These caterpillars remind me of Fall with their orange and black colors. 
 Almost like a Halloween caterpillar :)

I think this is a Tussock Moth Caterpillar