The water was warmer today and no clouds blocked the sunshine. A breeze trimmed turning leaves and flung them into the pool for beetles to raft on. I found another horntail attached to a sinking leaf. I also found a dead frog in the skimmer, but the horntail revived.
It wasn't the breeze that kept dropping acorns into the water. Blue jays and squirrels both foraged in the top of the oak. Titmice and chickadees visited the feeder and I saw a goldfinch at breakfast. I also glimpsed a wren and a dragonfly. The two spiders, garden and shamrock, seemed to be doing fine. But the star of the day was a red spotted purple that fanned itself for long minutes in the late afternoon. It might have just emerged as it walked as much as flew, and once teetered on the edge of falling into the water.
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