Stormy

The Northeaster we'd been having was joined by a tropical depression moving up from the South.  I had a white-knuckle trip into Norfolk for a 7am meeting.  The rain tapered off by the time I headed home and we had a couple of not-too-bad hours,

Of course the hummer feeders flooded.  And by the time we got fresh out they were very hungry.  A couple of young skinks ventured out, briefly. I found a snail on a bracket fungus.  And a slaty skimmer hunted from a perch in the dogwood. 

Egrets hung out by the dam outflow.  The water was still high from wind and then a couple of inches of rain. Then the rain came back followed by roaring winds.  Power flickered toward evening and I pictured a night in the dark, but we got lucky.