A great blue heron, a cloudless sulphur and a dragonfly got away without a photo. Crickets and beetles rafted on the water. I hauled spiders out, including a mama wolf and a bold jumper. Also there were sliverfish or firebrats,order Zygentoma, in the water. Out in the creek I spied another jellyfish.
A wasp investigated one of the patio chairs which offered it no wood. A venusta orchard spider hung from an enormous, flat web over in the trees. The one by the azalea was gone leaving me to wonder if it was the same spider.
Something upset the blue jays, I suspect it was a predatory bird. Mockingbirds sneaked into the beauty berries. The regulars and titmice rounded out the bird count.
Wisps of cirrus clouds moved East while below them fluffy cumulus slid past on a Northeast trajectory. At one point, the ice crystals that form cirrus clouds were in the right spot to intercept sunlight and refract it into a rainbow, or rather an ice-bow. I noticed a sundog earlier.
Then the sky cleared at sunset except for clouds on the horizon that turned gold. Later, the just-past full moon rose, looking large and illuminating the ground.
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