Getting warmer

I refilled the seed feeder.  Turned out the hummer feeder was empty too.  The poor hummer was persistent and tried all three holes but, of course, that didn't help.  Not much was stirring in the morning except squirrels.  Fluffy, transparent clouds blew East but there was only a light breeze. 

I saw a skink, and the house wrens, and the regulars.  The cardinals were still courting.  A chickadee repeatedly dangled off the ends of twigs for no apparent reason.  A cabbage white was interested in the rosemary.  A queen yellow jacket hunted around the top step. 

While I was swimming a painted skimmer dragonfly took up post on the stick I had out for that purpose.  I rescued a five-legged woodlouse spider, pinkish with a gray abdomen, and also a young wolf/grass/fishing spider.  Skinks were all over the place.  One looked into the pool while another peered over a plank like a kid outside a circus.  Wrens cursed in the shrubbery.  A goose family with four goslings attempted to visit but K sent them away. 

While we were eating supper, Mama fox looked up the steps, then went over and lay down under the maple for a spell.  The camera complained that it was too dark.