The day still lacked birds except for the regulars at the seed feeder. I did see a blue Jay and a family of wrens. An egret and a great blue heron posed across the creek. The hibiscus was a red riot again, but leaf miners and Japanese beetles chewed it badly.
Many kinds of dragonflies filled the day: a blue dasher, a female great blue skimmer, a male slaty skimmer, a male
amberwing, a Halloween pennant, and a couple of twelve-spotted skimmers. The great golden digger wasp was back, as were many smaller wasps. A bumblebee fussed over the wilted, fallen hibiscus blossoms. A palamedes swallowtail visited the fresh hibiscus flowers and a black swallowtail went for the gone-to-seed parsley. I rescued a couple of sidewalk tiger beetles and lots of "June bugs," both green and brown.
Haze thickened and made the sky mostly white. A mature skink with a red head slipped into the rosemary. I thought sunset might tint the cloud cover rose, but it only turned gold. Fireflies were out.
Many kinds of dragonflies filled the day: a blue dasher, a female great blue skimmer, a male slaty skimmer, a male amberwing, a Halloween pennant, and a couple of twelve-spotted skimmers. The great golden digger wasp was back, as were many smaller wasps. A bumblebee fussed over the wilted, fallen hibiscus blossoms. A palamedes swallowtail visited the fresh hibiscus flowers and a black swallowtail went for the gone-to-seed parsley. I rescued a couple of sidewalk tiger beetles and lots of "June bugs," both green and brown. 
Haze thickened and made the sky mostly white. A mature skink with a red head slipped into the rosemary. I thought sunset might tint the cloud cover rose, but it only turned gold. Fireflies were out.
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