Big clouds

The clouds rode by on a Southwest wind.  A small orange moth rested on the screen.  Titmice came for breakfast along with the regulars.  A male goldfinch preferred his seeds still on the plant.  A male house finch fed his fledgling.

At lunch, a brown thrasher foraged under the sunflowers.  And then there was a downpour in the early afternoon. It continued, off and on, for a couple of hours.  I hoped for a rainbow when the clouds moved off to the East, but no luck.

Afterward, there were dragonflies, but not many.  I saw a saddlebags and a 12-spot.  The temperature climbed back up.  A skink basked in the sun and a mushroom popped out of the mulch.  A hummer came to feed.  The female goldfinch and the brown thrasher returned.  I saw an egret preening on the side of the dam outflow.  The squirrel with the white spot was back, still itchy.