Steamy

Alternating showers and sunshine and sometimes both at once, along with heat and high humidity, meant that we could see literal steam rising from the pavement.  The frequent rain put a damper on flight for both insects and birds.  It did not stop the blue jays from stealing soggy bark butter balls.  A titmouse came back.  House finches squabbled.  Wrens foraged.  A bluebird ate cherries.  A male downy woodpecker wanted suet. 

A Halloween pennant flew from the pine and a blue dasher perched.  Wasps fussed over the mint.  I wasted the morning on medical things.