Eastern Black Swallowtail

I didn’t get a photo (darn!), but yesterday my dill plant in Zone 1 was virtually covered with Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillars. Today, the dill is in fine shape and the caterpillars have vanished. I feel blessed to have seen this young dill plant teeming with life, hosting “baby” swallowtails, and being “on purpose.” Machaelle Small Wright writes about how a worm being eaten by a robin heightens the worm’s life energy — that the bird-worm food partnership increases the worm’s energetic purpose. It’s this life energy and purpose that I saw and felt so strongly on the dill yesterday evening. Once again, in my garden work, I am extremely grateful.