Very warm

The creek reflected gently wavering images under a blue sky.  White throated sparrows were still here.  Titmice and the regulars ate sunflower seeds.  A male downy checked for suet, but unlike the female, didn't try the seeds.  A couple of starlings walked across the patio. The tux cat prowled through a couple of times.

When I opened the garage in the mid morning, in flew a bird.  Of course I didn't have the camera.  I went in and got it, but by then the bird was about to leave.  When I got home, I saw the first house wren of the season as it scuttled under a patio chair.  After lunch, we potted a pepper "pod."  The rose next to the driveway was covered with aphids.

Osprey circled over the creek in the afternoon.  A blue-tailed skink slithered through the mulch.  Bees and wasps sought nectar.  A huge carpenter bee kept looking in withered azalea blossoms.  A bee fly basked on a sunny ivy leaf.  Cabbage whites flitted around and at one point I saw a dragonfly. 

Later in the afternoon a squirrel climbed up to nibble on the hickory buds.  The pecan was beginning to leaf out.  A sunflower seedling started below the feeder.  Unfortunately, poison ivy also put out leaves.  Wild columbine was in bloom.  A couple of small blackberry brambles had blossoms.  Even moss was beginning to put up spore stalks.  Quite a heap of fallen tree limbs was piled up by the fence.  The last time I looked they were still hanging off the trees, though dead and rotting.

At supper the cardinal was feeding his mate.  Another bright moon in a clear sky followed the simple sunset.