Moist

The air is hazy with damp and everything is wet from yesterday's rain.  Occasionally the sun leaks through. At dawn, the tint on the clouds showed there were gaps in the cover, but now the sky seems more uniformly cloudy.  The fledgling cardinal was first at the feeder.  Chickadees and titmice tussled over a place on the perch.  The finches then joined in.  A squirrel buried a pecan in my flowerbed.

Mid-morning the sky seems to be clearing.  And by noon, it has become very nice.  I rescued a large cicada from the pool, also some beetles and a woodlouse spider (Dysdera crocata).  Sulphur butterflies are enjoying the morning glories, which are still wide open.

Big dark clouds have moved in, mostly blocking the sun.  An osprey is circling the creek.   A mature tiger swallowtail caterpillar on a cherry seedling showed up because it is on a brown leaf.  It does a goofy imitation of a green snake - it humps up its front half to look like a head and reveals a smile line under the eye spots. I'm wrong: the 4th instar is green but the final one is brown, says Wikipedia.