Sauna

The windows were fogged and the air felt sweaty.  I checked on the caterpillars and neither had moved.  The tiger swallowtail caterpillar twitched when touched.  At 5:30 am the moon was bright in the West, but clouds now dominate.

And as I finished the preceding words, a dark cloud rolled in and a downpour began.  It tapered off in less than 10 minutes. Ever since waves of rain have passed through. Chickadees are seizing a break in the weather to hit the feeder.

A female house finch ran off all the other birds and hunched like a tyrannosaurus on the perch.  Below it a Carolina wren probed the wet mulch.   Then another wave of rain came through. 

The past-full moon is playing peek-a-boo with the clouds.