Taigen, I am not positive, but I think that your pictures are of a Viceroy bf and not a Monarch. It is easy to confuse them. I have 3 books here on butterflies and the pictures fail to show either of them in both open wing and closed wing position. It is rare to catch a Monarch with it's wings spread open, so I decided to search out the differences in the two. Your butterfly has the curved black line crossing the middle of the hind wing that identifies it as a Viceroy.

I forgot about this one. Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, made from volcanic stone.

I tried to grow some pink yarrow and, for unknown reasons, it didn't work. The Moonshine yarrow that I have is sort of like zucchini, I leave them on the doorstep in the middle of the night of my neighbors who garden!

Susan, that's eerie looking. The sky is falling, the sky is falling.