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Have an Amazing New Year!

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May your days be blessed and beautiful

May your nights, sweet dreams supply

May your New Year be amazing

As a monarch butterfly

© Bette A. Stevens

Learn about Monarch Butterflies

Bette in her garden with one of the monarch butterflies that emerged from its chrysalis at the farmstead in central Maine.

Monarch butterflies offer an amazing view into the intricate nature of the wild. Their scientific name—Danaus Plexippus— Greek for “Sleepy Transformation,” gets part of the story right, but not the epic whole. Monarch butterflies embark on an amazing migratory phenomenon as they have the ability to hibernate and metamorphose.  International conservation efforts to protect and restore monarch habitat are ongoing. These efforts may help improve the near-endangered/endangered status of the species; but we, as ordinary citizens, can easily help the monarch butterfly recovery right in our own backyards and gardens.

  • Resources for kids, families, educators and gardeners 
    Download Bette’s FREE PDF “Fun & Learning with Monarch Butterflies” where you’ll find:
    ★ Monarch Butterfly Facts
    ★ Coloring Pages
    ★ Gardening
    ★ Video: How to Make an Origami Butterfly
    ★ Butterfly Teacher Guide and so much more…
    ★ How you can help protect our monarchs
    DOWNLOAD Bette’s FREE PDF https://4writersandreaders.com/fun-learning-with-monarchs-2/

Wishing all of you & all of
our amazing monarch butterflies…
“An Amazing New Year!”

~Bette A. Stevens, Maine author

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on 12/29/2021

Comments on: "Have an Amazing New Year!" (98)

  1. Mabel Kwong said:
    02/14/2022 at 4:46 am

    Monarch butterflies are beautiful. Hope you are having a good year so far, Bette. Best wishes to you and take care ❤

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  2. usfman said:
    01/27/2022 at 1:20 pm

    Hi Bette: we are looking at a trip to Bar Harbour this spring depending on the conditions of my 95 year old mother and my wife’s 95 year old father. I hope you’re doing well.

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    • Bette A. Stevens said:
      01/27/2022 at 1:39 pm

      Sounds wonderful, Jim! Recommend early May in Maine… Dan and I are well and keeping warm by the wood stove. Our first Nor’easter predicted for Saturday. We’ve been spending lots of time here at the farmstead since the pandemic began. Hope that you and Ruth and your parents are well and warm this winter too! Have a lovely week!

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      • usfman said:
        01/30/2022 at 10:42 am

        We’re doing ok . Thanks for the tips for Maine travel. We’re getting the tail end of the Nor’Easter in Florida. Iguana are falling out of trees.

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  3. Luanne said:
    01/21/2022 at 4:23 pm

    The Monarchs are very special. They must be part of almost every culture because of all their travels!

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  4. positivesideofcoin said:
    01/13/2022 at 1:10 am

    Wishing you and your’s good health and happiness this year.💫

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  5. Miriam Hurdle said:
    01/05/2022 at 5:02 pm

    Happy New Year and best wishes to you and your family, Bette! May your new year fill with amazing wonders! 🙂

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  6. Carol A. Hand said:
    01/03/2022 at 6:59 pm

    Wishing you a wonder-filled new year, dear Bette. 💜

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  7. Annette Rochelle Aben said:
    01/03/2022 at 5:22 am

    I will! Here’s imagining you will do the same! ❤

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  8. Toni Pike said:
    01/03/2022 at 3:15 am

    Have a wonderful New Year, Bette. I hope we all see more Monarch Butterflies. Toni x

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  9. roughwighting said:
    01/01/2022 at 5:14 pm

    LOVELY greeting and reminder that we can fly, and be as beautiful as a butterfly, if we only believe. I believe! Happy New Year, Bette!

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  10. D. Wallace Peach said:
    12/31/2021 at 5:05 pm

    A lovely New Year’s wish, Bette. May this year be as wonderous and beautiful as the Monarchs. Hugs. ❤

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  11. DutchIl said:
    12/31/2021 at 4:07 pm

    Thanks for sharing!!.. hope you had the mostest Merry Christmas ever and have a very Happy New Year with the new year filled with love and happiness and life is all that you wish for it to be!!… 🙂

    Until we meet again…
    May love and laughter light your days,
    and warm your heart and home.
    May good and faithful friends be yours,
    wherever you may roam.
    May peace and plenty bless your world
    with joy that long endures.
    May all life’s passing seasons
    bring the best to you and yours!
    (Irish Saying)

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  12. notestowomen said:
    12/31/2021 at 12:16 pm

    Thanks, Bette. I wish you and yours a happy, healthy and safe New Year 🙂

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  13. Marilyn Armstrong said:
    12/30/2021 at 11:55 pm

    Have yourself and everyone you love a great turning of the year and let’s hope that the next one is a good one. We deserve something good, don’t we?

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  14. Book Club Mom said:
    12/30/2021 at 8:36 pm

    Best wishes for a healthy and happy new year, Bette!

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  15. Jennie said:
    12/30/2021 at 5:06 pm

    Lovely, Bette. Happy New Year to you!

    Liked by 1 person

  16. John W. Howell said:
    12/30/2021 at 3:31 pm

    Thank you, Bette. I hope you have a Happy and Healthy New Year

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  17. boundlessblessingsblog said:
    12/30/2021 at 10:48 am

    A wonderful post on Butterflies, Bette. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2022.

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  18. Eugi said:
    12/30/2021 at 9:11 am

    Happy New Year, Bette! Hugs! 💖

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  19. TanGental said:
    12/30/2021 at 3:45 am

    Happy new year Bette. My father talked longingly about the monarch as the only butterfly known to migrate across the Atlantic and reach England. He loved the idea that one day he’d see one. It didn’t happe at least not live but he organised a tour of national butterfly collection at thr Natural History museum when I was about ten and there were some examples, often Victorian. Such an amazing creature.

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  21. BACK ROADS AND OTHER STORIES said:
    12/29/2021 at 9:58 pm

    Have a happy and healthy new year!

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  22. Priscilla Bettis said:
    12/29/2021 at 9:47 pm

    Thank you, Bette! I hope you have a wonderful 2022, too!

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  23. petespringerauthor said:
    12/29/2021 at 9:38 pm

    Wishing you a fabulous new year, Bette!

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  24. nonsmokingladybug said:
    12/29/2021 at 9:00 pm

    Wishing you a wonderful New Year.

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  25. Kymber Hawke said:
    12/29/2021 at 8:38 pm

    Happy New Year, Bette! I hope the upcoming year is full of joy and blessings! xoxo

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  26. VJ Knutson said:
    12/29/2021 at 7:23 pm

    Happy New Year, Bette!

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  27. Rebecca Budd said:
    12/29/2021 at 3:31 pm

    Oh Bette, a wonderful way to begin 2022. I LOVE butterflies. As Robert A Heinlein noted, “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”

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  29. Darlene said:
    12/29/2021 at 1:58 pm

    How special! Wishing you a wonderful new year full of kindness and joy!

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    12/29/2021 at 1:24 pm

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  31. marianbeaman said:
    12/29/2021 at 1:23 pm

    I just left a website that declared “I’m not optimistic about the new year.” It’s refreshing to see your optimism here, an attitude that i share! 😀

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  32. Sandee said:
    12/29/2021 at 1:13 pm

    Wishing you and yours a healthy, happy and loved filled 2022.

    Have a fabulous day, Bette. ♥

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  33. patgarcia said:
    12/29/2021 at 12:31 pm

    Hi Bette,
    May your year 2022 be filled with many pleasant surprises and joys that makes your heart sing.
    Shalom aleichem

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  34. Andrew McDowell said:
    12/29/2021 at 12:19 pm

    Happy New Year!

    Liked by 2 people

  35. Annika Perry said:
    12/29/2021 at 11:54 am

    A beautiful message as 2021 comes to an end. Wishing you an amazing New Year, my dear friend! hugs xx ❤️

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    • Bette A. Stevens said:
      12/29/2021 at 3:40 pm

      Sending lots of love your way, Annika! Your beautiful card arrived today–so grateful for you. May bountiful blessings follow you and yours always. ✨ HAPPY NEW YEAR! 💞 xo

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  36. Rosaliene Bacchus said:
    12/29/2021 at 11:46 am

    Thank you, Bette. May you also have an amazing year ❤

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  37. Gwen M. Plano said:
    12/29/2021 at 11:24 am

    Beautiful, Bette. Thank you and may the New Year bless you with much joy. 💗

    Liked by 2 people

  38. Jill Weatherholt said:
    12/29/2021 at 11:20 am

    Wishing you and your family a peaceful and blessed year ahead, Bette!❤️

    Liked by 3 people

  39. Jan Sikes said:
    12/29/2021 at 11:18 am

    Thank you for the beautiful new year blessing, Bette! I wish it back to you ten-fold!

    Liked by 1 person

  40. Liz Gauffreau said:
    12/29/2021 at 11:06 am

    Thank you, Bette! Here’s to an amazing year for all of us!

    Liked by 2 people

  41. janetweightreed10 said:
    12/29/2021 at 10:58 am

    Thank you Bette….and the same to you. :)XX

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  42. noelleg44 said:
    12/29/2021 at 10:41 am

    You, too, my friend.

    Liked by 1 person

  43. River Dixon said:
    12/29/2021 at 10:36 am

    Happy New Year to you, too!

    Liked by 2 people

  44. radhikasreflection said:
    12/29/2021 at 10:27 am

    Thanks for sharing these resources. Wishing you a wonderful 2022, Bette 💕

    Liked by 1 person

  45. Becky Ross Michael said:
    12/29/2021 at 10:12 am

    Same to you, Bette! Great resources about butterflies!

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