Mostly blue sky with wispy clouds, hot sun and a cooling breeze - that's perfect.
Butterflies were out: a cabbage white, a palamedes swallowtail, a gray hairstreak, and others that got away. The eggs on the parsley hatched into caterpillars just big enough to see. I saw a blue dasher before it dashed away. Lots of small webs festooned the shrubs, both orbs and domes. Bees and wasps were working on the herbs. I saw a small black thread-waisted wasp and a blue winged digger wasp. Jays and squirrels were busy with acorns. Hummers were hungry, of course.
I tried to identify the flower in the photo with the gray hairstreak and learned it is a DYC. When the afternoon sun, about 4pm, came through the bathroom widow, I discovered there was a huge orb web outside.
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