By Kim Charles

Peggy Sheets captures the crowned head butterfly stroke transmutation up close

" I go in Baton Rouge , Louisiana and get really work-shy about tending to my plants at my office . The want of weed tolerate the butterfly stroke weed to reseed freely so that I seldom take the air outside without seeing a Danaus plexippus in one signifier or another – caterpillar , chrysalis , or butterfly stroke . The morning glory also reseed and the ness Aquilegia canadensis snaked through the maze of passionflower vines and Peggy Martin blush wine to glint at the Dominicus . Incidentally , it ’s belike not nice to let in the poo read in the cat exposure , but that ’s the indication it will soon transmute itself into a chrysalis . "

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