Windy

Hummers and egrets showed up as usual at breakfast.  A hummer visited the canna.  Titmice did not get up early. 

A big cross spider took up residence outside my window where it captured an ample meal.  The argiope spider was bouncing on its web in the wind.  While the clouds consistently sped East, the wind on the ground came from all directions. 

A blue tailed skink crossed the patio to the azalea.  I got curious and discovered it sunning on the far side.  Another lurked around the pool steps.  Later I found two in the skipper, one alive and one drowned.  There was also a much-decayed and very gross frog but I saw no others, living or dead, and dared hope the plague of frogs was ended. 

A few small butterflies and an intrepid blue dasher battled the wind.  I rescued two centipedes, by accident, as they bite. The wheel bug, or another just like it, was floating, dead i the water.  A flock of crows milled around in the air. 

Around 6pm one of the big clouds that had been sailing out of the West let loose.  It didn't last long, but it was not supposed to rain at all.  "10% chance."  When it started up again around 7:30pm, I dashed out and shut the feeder.  No sooner had I got inside than a male cardinal landed on the feeder and seemed stunned at the thought of no bedtime snack.  Then another male chased the first one off.  The cross spider was back at work as the light faded.