Sandpoint embraces its monarch moment at festival
Local youths giggle after a monarch butterfly decided to rest on one of the youth's heads as they visited a flight house at Saturday's Monarch & Friends Festival.
Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER
A monarch butterfly rests on a release container as Perky Hagadone and family release a monarch butterfly at a butterfly release during the Monarch & Friends Festival in Sandpoint on Saturday.
Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER
A volunteer releases monarch butterflies at the culmination of Monarch & Friends Festival in Sandpoint on Saturday.
Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER
Pam Duquette encourages a monarch butterfly she sponsored to fly away during a butterfly release event at the Monarch & Friends Festival on Saturday.
Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER
Kelly Peterson and Sloane Behrens pose for a monarch butterfly-themed photo behind a giant butterfly cutout at Saturday's Monarch & Friends Festival.
Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER
SANDPOINT — Monarch butterflies were everywhere at Saturday's Monarch & Friends Festival.
Decorations featured the distinctive bright orange-and-black butterflies. Crafts offered a chance to make them from colorful pipe cleaners. An oversized monarch butterfly offered a chance for photos.