PHOTOS: Ekabhishek via Wikipedia and Ron Rowan via Urquhartbutterfly.com

PHOTO:  Holli Webb Hearn

At cycle’s end, the monarch chrysalis POPS open…an adult butterfly pushes its way out of its crystal sleeping bag to flutter and fly high up in the sky…then glide and soar on majestic wings to an unknown place 2,500 miles away to the Oyamel fir trees of Mexico or the cypress groves and eucalyptus trees of California…snuggling together with thousands for a long winter’s rest.