Despite the Drought*, Life Goes On

I went out on to my deck this evening and I counted 

eight Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillars on my volunteer dill plants. 

As I am not crazy about dill, 

the caterpillars are more than welcome to the plants.

Bon appetit.

       *If any of you knows a good rain dance, 

I'd appreciate it about now.  

Who's ever heard of brown grass in June?

In a few weeks each of these caterpillars will grow up to be

this beautiful butterfly.

Here is a picture of one of their relatives that I took a couple of years ago:

Now if we could only get some rain!

That's not asking for much, is it?