Having my first exploration of the Milwaukee Public Museum last Saturday was a wonderful adventure! I had a few favorites from my visit, but the collections that will be bringing me back to take a little more time, were all the bugs!

I have a serious love for insects.

Had I known I would have felt this way growing up, I might have studied to be an entomologist…

As you may have read here before, I took a natural field science class in college long ago, where each student had to pin their own collections. I’d always been intrigued by insects, but that added a generous amount of fuel to my fascination…

And if I had extra time now (don’t we all wish we had more time for our special hobbies), I would pin my own collections still…

Though, I have to tell you, my heart is so ridiculously tender these days, I’d have a hard time dispatching a single creature just to show it in the stage of a glass box. I can’t even kill a spider, and when I do by accident, I feel sad…

I believe these little beasties deserve to live their lives, as whisper short as they may often be…

…except for ticks perhaps. I’ve no comprehension for why God included them in His plan. Baffles me everyday. Why ticks, Lord? Why?

I just shivered imagining a tick on my neck. The horror.

Thankfully, I didn’t see any ticks on display at the museum! But I did see…

Lots and lots of butterflies!

Live butterflies! Baby newborn butterflies birthing from their chrysalises!

This brought me back to grade school, when our class eagerly awaited a butterfly to be born from a chrysalis. A lesson about life and nature. That was so special.

At the Milwaukee Public Museum, they have a room of live butterflies, that you can amble through as though walking in a dream…

What I found most interesting, was that I observed that different kinds of butterflies have unique flight patterns. Sort of like how a goldfinch, a swallow, and a sparrow, all fly quite differently. This is probably common sense, but I enjoyed noticing it on my own all the same…

I enjoyed too, observing all the color combinations and patterns of butterfly wings, when gazing at the pinned specimens…

I could spend a lot of time pondering before these displays.

Is not the butterfly, the very epitome, of the fragility and beauty of life?

If I were a butterfly, I would like to be her, the one with the cream and pink-tipped wings.

Precious little souls…

And now you have taken a walk with me, to see all the insects at the Milwaukee Public Museum! I sincerely can’t wait to go back, to take more time to view them!

Best wishes dear friends! Take good care of yourselves! And for those of you in the same northern climate as I, think on spring! It is not so very far.

Stay Inspired!