A golden dragonfly ( probably yellow sided skimmer) clung half way up the hanger for the mealworm dish until a skink came along and showed too much interest.
Wasps were out in large numbers but there wasn't much else, just a cabbage white. But I found a caterpillar on the rue. The dogwood, azaleas, wood hyacinths, and money plant were all finished blooming. Irises were the main choice for a pollinator, but the Love rose had dozens of buds. And the coral honeysuckle was a mass of flowers. Goslings that were no longer small and cute kept intruding, and pooping. I saw a hummer, a blue jay, an osprey, and a bluebird. And I heard a wren that never appeared.
There was some haze in the sky in the late afternoon, but after I came in, a storm blew up. The first I noticed was that it was getting dark fast. Around 7:30pm the wind roared and rain slammed the house. Lightning flashed but I didn't see any strokes. It slowly diminished through the evening, rumbling and grumbling. The radar map of the storm looked like a Chinese dragon wriggling from central North Carolina across us and up the coast.
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