this confused moth/butterfly thing was in between the storm door and the screen door to the backyard this morning.
when i say "unparallelled bedlam"... i am not exaggerating. every single animal was jumping in a snarling, unreasoning frenzy at the back door, and the winged thing was very upset indeed. he was so large, and so close, that you could see from his body language how freaked out he was. the fact that we were playing beethoven's piano sonatas during all of this was somehow fitting - it was all very frenetic.
i left the house, figuring there was nothing to be done about it. i had to put the ottoman up against the tv cabinet so ripley couldn't get back there and dig through the glass.
the animals were all still so focused on it four hours later that i just went and took the door off the track to free the thing. it was very pretty.
this photo may look picturesque and violence-free, but i was threatening ripley's life in low tones the entire time. she did not get to eat this butterfly/moth. this time.
in other news, the hair alliums appear to have entered the sinister "phase two" of their development.