Sun

Fog burned off quickly but it was beautiful waking up.  The creek was smooth as glass.  Lace handkerchief webs in the grass were dewy.  Chickadees tried to slip in between cardinals to get seeds.  I went out front to see if the dew would make the argiope's web more visible.  The front door was hosting a convention of long bodied cellar spiders. 

At lunch I saw a blue tailed skink.  I glimpsed a goldfinch, just a streak of yellow and black.  A mockingbird was a flash of white on gray.  I also glimpsed a dragonfly that quickly disappeared.  A cloudless sulphur and a few other butterflies were out. 

In the afternoon I surprised a large jumping spider with iridescent green fangs on the pool coping.  One of the mature black swallowtail caterpillars was humping along the coping in a different spot.  I moved it across the pool for no good reason and it headed under the azalea.  It didn't leave much parsley for the younger caterpillar that was still growing.   The coral honeysuckle made coral berries.

A great blue heron stood on a downstream dock while egrets fished in the dam outfall.  A flock of blue jays complained about something.  A yellow crowned night heron prowled the marsh edge.  The afternoon sky slowly clouded over with thick, fuzzy-edged cotton cumulus. The barn spider's web was back in the bathroom window.