Sleeping Beauty

Are you really still in there?

It's just shy of six months since you bound yourself in silk and leaves and transformed from a Looney Tune jolly green giant of a caterpillar into a rich brown nugget like pupa and fell into a deep winter sleep. Tempted as I am to peek inside your wondrous little nest, I won't. But I can guess someone else has.

I thought so.

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Remember when you were this most flamboyant larva?

There's A Caterpillar In The Crabapple Tree

I only hope I'm around to welcome your hatching. Until then, I'll keep waiting and watching and waiting and...