It takes four generations of monarch to reach its destination.  That means the butterfly that leaves Canada in the mid-summer headed to Mexico is not the one that arrives, and vice versa.  The butterfly that leave Mexico and arrives in Canada is four generations monarch later.

While raising three boys in our north Jersey home, it was always our dream to have a lake house in a rural country setting. As the years passed and the boys were nearly grown, we realized that all our conversations had not led to any progress in finding our dream getaway.

I was in the pool the other day, but I would rather be swimming at Duck Harbor. My pool colleague said he was so happy he moved to Virginia; he knew right away this was where he should be. He said all the years he moved around living in different places, when he set foot here in Virginia, he knew he was home. Humph, I thought, I have lived in my share of places, and I have never been anywhere that felt like this is where I should have been all along.