Saturday, July 8, 2017

H O T

I was in a meeting from breakfast till mid afternoon.  The car registered 99°F on the way home.  A black swallowtail visited the parsley and the rue but escaped me.  Dragonflies hunted from their perches.  A sidewalk tiger beetle kept its body high off the hot pavement.  A trashline orbweaver left the evidence hanging over the azalea by the window.

Later, bluebirds came for more wild cherries. Squirrels continued to bully each other.  A buzzard flew upstream.  Toward sunset, the clouds that had been streaming East got thicker and darker.  North and South they picked up sunset color, but not overhead.  No chance of seeing the full moon rise.  But fireflies were flickering and cicadas buzzing when I bricked the feeder.  Thunder finally rumbled after 10pm followed by a hard rain. 



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