Oh to Take Flight - Hardcover Nature Journal

We were loading the camper for a trip when it happened. A monarch chrysalis had been hanging quietly on the back of our mailbox post for days. And then, on that ordinary morning in a coastal New Jersey garden, the miracle unfolded before our eyes — wings emerging, slowly unfurling, that extraordinary orange and black spreading into the summer air for the very first time. We stayed. The camper could wait. This watercolour image captures that moment — the freshly emerged monarch still clinging to the milkweed stem, wings not yet ready to carry it, gathering the strength for the journey ahead. A journey that will take it thousands of miles to a forest in Mexico it has never seen but somehow knows. 150 lined pages in a hardcover matte journal, 5.75 x 8 inches. For the moments worth staying for. For the journeys not yet begun. For everyone who has ever watched something small and miraculous find its wings. 🦋