Painted Lady Super Bloom in the Santa Cruz Mountains! Driving Highway 9 from the Silicon Valley up to the ridgeline of the Santa Cruz Mountains is always beautiful, but today felt extraordinary. Every turn in the road brought a fresh swirl of butterflies. Hundreds. Thousands. Painted Lady butterflies everywhere. I looked it up while stopped along the way and discovered this is being called a butterfly “super bloom.” After abundant rainfall, plentiful food for caterpillars, wa

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Some of the deepest strength is formed in life’s hardest places. Challenge does not always stop growth. Sometimes it becomes the very force that strengthens it. Gratitude helps us honor not only where we bloom, but where we learned to endure. Visit "www.ThankU.io" for the full story. #ThankU.io #Grateful #SantaCruzMountains. Gratitude often begins not in ease, but in the places where life asks us to endure. We may imagine growth as something soft and graceful, unfolding effo