Morning was fairly sunny but clouds lined the horizon. The hummers drank and chased each other. Titmice snatched seeds and squabbled. Dragonflies were perched when I got home at mid day.
A yellow crowned night heron down by the dam outfall held its wings in the overheated pose. Thermometers claimed 90 or more. A black swallowtail and a nearly black duskywing flitted around.
In the afternoon, dark clouds closed in, the light level dropped, and the day grew breathless. That's when I finally got in the pool. While fishing out leaves and beetles and such, I found another frog floating, dead alas. I don't know if the pool chemicals did it or if they had something else wrong, but they didn't drown. However, the thunderstorm broke while I was still in the water and I had to scramble to get the camera under cover. The rain wasn't too hard at first, but a deluge followed and flooded all the ditches. I wondered what condition Norfolk would be in, but it was dry there.The clouds brought night on early. Rainfall for the month and year is above "normal," again.
Morning was fairly sunny but clouds lined the horizon. The hummers drank and chased each other. Titmice snatched seeds and squabbled. Dragonflies were perched when I got home at mid day.
A yellow crowned night heron down by the dam outfall held its wings in the overheated pose. Thermometers claimed 90 or more. A black swallowtail and a nearly black duskywing flitted around. 
In the afternoon, dark clouds closed in, the light level dropped, and the day grew breathless. That's when I finally got in the pool. While fishing out leaves and beetles and such, I found another frog floating, dead alas. I don't know if the pool chemicals did it or if they had something else wrong, but they didn't drown. However, the thunderstorm broke while I was still in the water and I had to scramble to get the camera under cover. The rain wasn't too hard at first, but a deluge followed and flooded all the ditches. I wondered what condition Norfolk would be in, but it was dry there.The clouds brought night on early. Rainfall for the month and year is above "normal," again.
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