Monday, October 6, 2014

Warmer

Doves congregated under the feeder and around the patio.  Squirrels, including white spot, alternated between dropped seed and nuts.  The regulars appeared for breakfast, but nothing more exotic.  Something - maybe fish, maybe methane - kept popping to the surface of the creek and making ripples that caught the sun.  Otherwise the creek was glassy till mid-morning. 

Spiders, a snail, field crickets, and black beetles were in the water.  A spider fell off the brick and apparently died almost immediately.  I fished it out but it did not revive.  A mama wolf spider also clung to the brick.  I put a twig for the spiders to use to climb out but none did.  More honeybees found the rosemary.  A black swallowtail visited the parsley and a cabbage butterfly flitted by.  A big darner dragonfly zoomed back and forth.


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