The first butterfly

During the fall, we have flies that somehow get inside our windows, and I assume they get into the bathroom vent, and I'm not sure where else. They seem capable of squeezing through a space that you wouldn't know existed otherwise.

It is there that they freeze, and thaw, and re-freeze, and thaw again.

Lather, rinse, repeat, all winter long.

So it happens that all winter long, a random thawed fly or two finds a way into the house. Just often enough that we don't forget about them.

We live in the country. It's just the way it is.

Hence the fly excitement I documented a few weeks ago.

When I saw yet another one in the kitchen last evening, I wasn't too surprised. But in between a three year old boy doing his best to imitate a deafening power tool noise, trying to listen to my older boy tell me a story with the word 'very' repeated five-hundred times, noticing my husband throw one end of a sump pump hose across a snowbank and attach the other end to our basement window, and trying my darnedest to get supper ready while waddling around with a baby hugging my leg... I noticed the fly was not a fly.


That might be the worst photo I have ever posted. Considering what I had to work with you're darn lucky I even got one at all.

Lucky for me too, or you might have never believed it was a tiny butterfly. Seriously. A butterfly, in my house, in the middle of March when the snow is deep and slushy outside.

It must have come from the same magical place those flies come from.

Thanks to ToadMama for suggesting black frames on my photos. The funny thing is that at one point I had played with a black background for the blog. I loved how it made the photos pop, but then I had this little problem of white text on a black background which was absolutely impossible.

I may subject you to a lot of nasty things, but white text on a black background will never be one of them. I promise.

Simply putting black frames on my photos had never crossed my young-child-raising, sleep-deprived, foggy brain.

Anyway, I like it, even with such an awful photo to test it on. What do you think?