Kelly, a camper at YMCA Camp Skycrest, carefully harbors a newly hatched monarch butterfly before releasing it.
A helping hand
In photographing a monarch butterfly as it explored the hand of a young girl, the notion of a “helping hand” was mainly what I had in mind.
But given recent headlines about the horrors unfolding in Africa and the Near East, and the bleak future facing many human societies and innocent, wild creatures, I recalled a story about ruthless power.
Many hospitals have them: gardens, whose main purpose is to soothe, comfort and heal what ails you, both physically and emotionally. A whole branch of landscape architecture has sprung up just to study what it is that people need in a garden to help them to feel safe and calm, then to create it.
