Still hot

The hummer turned up her beak at the feeder, so we put out fresh.  Two Carolina wrens cleaned out the mealworms so I refilled that too.  A skink seemed to chase its tail, but I suppose it was a bug.  I rescued a honeybee and a mama wolf spider from the water. The wolf spider was carrying her egg pearl.  An ant carried off a huge (to it) cicada wing.  Earlier, I saw a cicada killer on the prowl. 

A blue dasher obelisked by the butterfly milkweed.  The wrens came back for more mealworms.  A hummer (or more) paid brief visits to the fresh juice.  Blue jays and maybe a goldfinch hid in the foliage.  Cumulus clouds started piling up at lunch and by 3:30pm there was thunder and lightning, signifying nothing.  The fledgling cardinal was shivering in the hackberry, trying to cage a meal.  A Halloween pennant was perched atop the tallest pine candle with dark clouds as a backdrop.

Around 6pm, finally, the rain fell, accompanied by much louder, closer thunder.  As soon as it slacked off, after about an hour, a titmouse came for supper.  The wrens picked bits out of the rain-filled mealworm dish.  Dragonflies started hunting as soon as the rain stopped.  Through the trees, I could see golden light in the West but clouds remained overhead.