The lovely young lady in the above picture is Sarah.  She is the nine year old alter in a system that keepers have become quite close with over the last many months.  Sarah, however, has captured keepers hearts and we have developed a very good smoothie and story reading relationship.  The Mr. John in the above picture happens to be the name that Sarah gave the beautiful butterfly that is perched on her finger.

You see, a couple of weeks ago, Sarah had spent the day out at the farm of one of her very best friends.  While out there, this friend gave Sarah a special box and several caterpillars and some parsley and a few branches–all of which Sarah took home with her.  Sarah’s farm friend has known for a long time how much Sarah and everyone in the system loves butterflies and sent them on their way home with all the needed supplies for the caterpillars to make their cocoons and eventually awaken as beautiful butterflies.  Through emails and pictures, Sarah has kept keepers lady and Mr. John updated on the progress of the caterpillars from the moment they arrived home and through their cocoon stage.  For all of us, this has been an awesome experience to watch and share with someone so special.  Well, this afternoon, an IM message appeared on our screen.  It said KEEPERS LADY WE GOT A BUTTERFLY.  She went on to let us know that the system was going outside to set the butterfly free.  Then another alter in the system sent us some beautiful pictures of Mr. John, the butterfly.  This entire experience has been awesome but actually seeing the beautiful butterfly which came out of that cocoon we have been watching for over a week now has made this day a fabulous, wonderfful, so nice, very good day for our friend Sarah and for keepers.

In all honesty, keepers have gotten to experience and be a part of some absolutely wonderful and amazing events since we first began KEEPERSKORNER in July of 2006.  Each experience has been precious to all keepers and we are so thankful the the experiences seem to grow more special as time goes on around here.  Keepers have even gotten to be part of birthing butterflies which has been a true blessing for us all.   Keepers have always seen butterflies as one of nature’s greatest miracles and we treasure watching on or two fly around our back yard.  But to actually be this close to the life processes of a butterfly is something keepers never dreamed we would get to be a part of.  So, thank you, Sarah for sharing this special event with keepers.

Of course, the above picture of Sarah and Mr. John, the butterfly, is going up on our WALL OF WONDERFUL so that keepers can always remember how special today was as a beautiful butterfly came forth and spread his wings to fly away.  It has been a day that no keeper ever wants to forget.

Sarah has two other cocoons that have yet to open.  One named Keepers Lady should open in the very near future and the other, smallest one (named little keepers) probably has over a week to go until his cocoon stage is behind him.  But keepers are now watching and waiting for IM message or email or phone call that lets us know another one of Sarah’s cocoons has brought forth another butterfly.

We will keep you posted on the other two cocoons over the next week or so.

peace and blessings,

keepers