Just 65 degrees this morning. Windows open in August! Cardinals and finches are enjoying it. Chickadees finally got up. A hummer flitted all around the feeder but didn't feed - time to change it? A jumping spider hiked across the window. And an osprey landed briefly in the pines across the creek. A tiny skink crossed the steps at lunch and a full grown one mid-afternoon. A black swallowtail left eggs on the rue and a little pearl crescent butterfly fed on the rosemary. I cleaned the hummer feeder and refilled it.
I've identified a new insect, a broad-headed sharpshooter. I've seen them before and just said "leafhopper" in my head, but I wanted to label the photo better than that. Apparently "sharpshooters" are cousins of leafhoppers and cicadas. 
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