Rain

The temperature had dropped overnight and rain began to fall after 8am.  I saw an egret and a cormorant on the creek and a downy and a titmouse on the feeders.  The window glass was streaky with rain.

The rain let up for a while after lunch and became intermittent.  A pair of buffleheads fished.

Around 6pm, the sky began to clear.  The feral cat hunkered down as though watching a mouse hole.  Sunset was gold.  A pair of cardinals came for bedtime snacks and a white throated sparrow scurried through the mulch in the twilight. 

I saw Jupiter rising in the East as I bricked the feeder.