On Sunday, I was writing/drawing/doing yoga on my patio and suddenly noticed this fella on the edge of my mat.

I haven’t seen one of these guys in YEARS.

In fact, the last time I remember seeing them was when I was a kid. My friends and I collected them in glass jars with holes in the lids so the caterpillars could be pets.

I don’t remember them dying in the jars so either we included enough grass and leaves as food or we let them out in time.

They were all over the place when I was young but where have they been in the meantime?

I guess I must not have noticed them after a certain point but it’s kind of weird that I didn’t notice them again when my kids were small.

Perhaps they were hiding from me all this time? 😉

PS – On an opposite note, I remember there being way more slugs than snails when I was a kid. Were the snails just avoiding me?