Ready for the big wide world

This morning, about week after I'd found it on a leaf of rabbit Rosie's greens, the hoverfly had emerged from its pupa. When I went out to release it, it was so kind to sit still a few moments on the edge of the container in which I'd kept it before flying off.

It has been 7 months since mum's passing and every time I think of her still makes me feel sad.