Mr. Caterpillar

The first week we moved into our new house, Audrey noticed a "worm" crawling on the sidewalk up to our door.  I quickly noted that it was not a worm, but a Caterpillar that she saw.  The next day, the caterpillar was on the stairs up to our door.  Each day for a week, she would go outside and see Mr. Caterpillar, as we came to call him, somewhere on the sidewalk or stairs.  It was almost a game for her to find Mr. Caterpillar.

Last weekend, we noticed that the caterpillar was crawling up the white molding around our front door.  Then, we noticed a second one nestled up in a groove in the molding, and he had some white strings around him...he was starting his cocoon!  At that point I started looking around the door, and noticed several more completed cocoons tucked away in the molding.  That is when it dawned on me that Mr. Caterpillar was in fact multiple caterpillars that had been making their way to our door because their white cocoons blend in with the white molding.  Today, we have 12 cocoons that we are watching intently, waiting for beautiful butterflies to emerge.