A flock of crows boiled up out of the pines but I couldn't make out the cause of their upset. A cloudless sulphur butterfly competed with the blown leaves. I also saw a cabbage butterfly. A white throated sparrow took over the feeder and scared off the chickadees. The wind is whipping the sunflowers and thrashing the trees. Two doves visited the birdbath. Bees worked on the pea flowers and the camellias. 
The sky stayed cloudless all day. Towards sunset, cormorants and egrets road the wind home. A white throat came to the feeder, then another chased it off. The sun set and the male cardinal came, followed by the female, followed by me with the brick to shut the trough. The wind finally dropped after sundown. As I bricked the feeder I saw the first quarter moon high in the SE.
Mme Argiope continues to guard the porch light, and her four egg sacks. She's gotten rather lazy with her zigzag stitch.
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