Date: 10/05/2005

Number: 1

I went outside into the courtyard of the building where I work in South St. Louis City on the morning of Oct. 5th to take in a few breaths of the cool morning air, as I had done for the last few months. This was not a typical day, however, as I suddenly found myself amidst a swarm of fluttering Monarchs. I stood in awe at this spectacular sight not believing what I was seeing. I stood still as the fluttering wings abated, it was at this moment that I noticed that there were not merely hundreds of these beautiful butterflies around me, as I originally thought, but thousands. There was at least one monarch resting on every leaf in the tree-filled courtyard as well as each leaf on the thick vine that drapes the fence dividing the property line behind the building. I have never seen anything as anomalously beautiful as this before in my life and feel grateful that I was there at the right time to be graced with such beauty.

St. Louis, MO

Latitude: 38.6 Longitude: -90.2

Observed by: Elizabeth
Contact Observer

The observer's e-mail address will not be disclosed.
Contact will be made through a web-based form.