On Sunday August 28th, Topanga and surrounding communities joined in celebration and support of the butterflies. This, the Third Annual Butterfly Day event at the Mountain Mermaid welcomed more than 800 participants and community partners, who attended, organized it and made it possible. The highlight of the day was the magical live butterfly house, but there were many environmental partners who provided children’s activities, live exhibits, food and drink, and all-day musical performances. The event would never have been possible without them and the work of many essential, if less visible partners who played a vital role in the success of the day. Thank you! Thank you! For use of their property to hang Butterfly Day banners, Michael Greene, Lance Roberts of Froggy’s, Chris Kelly and Eric of Topanga Creek Outpost, Peter Norwood of Topanga Hauling, Tauni Brustin and Martine, and Michael Klock and Antonia Bath at the Cheney Ranch. Thank you! Ellen Geer and Peter Alsop at Theatricum Botanicum, Mermaid neighbor Clare Brown for the use of their properties for parking, and our Cheney Canyon neighbors for embracing the additional traffic. Thank you! Volunteer Topanga Canyon Docents who were at the entrance and inside the butterfly house keeping our butterflies safe and educating our guests. Thank you! Flavia Potenza of The Canyon Chronicle and Bonnie Morgan at Topanga New Times for their generous coverage of the Butterfly Day event. Thank you! To the environmental organizations and musicians who donated their time, knowledge, and talents. To Patrick O’Connor for running sound. To all those in the community and from Topanga Elementary who helped staff stations at the event throughout the day. Thank you! We are grateful for the efforts of Sergio and Yaotl Jimenez and daughters, Luna and Coyolli, for so much hard work and loving care of the native nursery and the butterfly house and for personally rearing many of the 300 butterflies that graced the event. Thank you! Beyond our many human partners, we are grateful to the countless butterflies, moths, birds, and other pollinators that inhabit our biosphere, for showering us with their timeless beauty and grace, while supporting our flowers, food, and the fertility and conservation of the natural world. We hope this event will continue to inspire our community to plant native landscapes, build habitats, remember to vote, and take positive actions to support conservation of these precious animals. Thank you!