When I got up a squirrel was doing upside down pushups on a branch of the redwood. Then it began to frantically jerk its tail. My best guess is that it was in the mood for sex. A molting hummer got an early breakfast.
Knowing I planned on registering voters in the afternoon, I got into the pool early. But I was too late for two frogs and a skink. I hope they were not the forerunners of a plague of dead frogs like last year. Outside the library, while we waited for people to register, I saw a saddlebags, a Halloween pennant, and a yellow bodied dragonfly. A monarch and a red spotted purple flitted around the liriope. What I didn't see was anyone to register. Fortunately there was a breeze because I was quite sweaty by the time I was through. Cumulus clouds streamed out of the West under higher cirrus clouds that looked like a faint thumbprint.
Not long after I got home the clouds congealed into a stormy-looking sky. The goldfinch came for water. A hummer ignored it, but not the chickadee on the seed feeder. Some birds played with the wind gusts while others flapped madly to get somewhere. A tiger swallowtail fed on the milkweed.
On the front patio, I found two different kind of potter wasp nests. Wind whipped the trees but nothing else happened till around 6:30pm when a few sprinkles fell. Rain began in earnest around 7pm.
When I got up a squirrel was doing upside down pushups on a branch of the redwood. Then it began to frantically jerk its tail. My best guess is that it was in the mood for sex. A molting hummer got an early breakfast. 
Knowing I planned on registering voters in the afternoon, I got into the pool early. But I was too late for two frogs and a skink. I hope they were not the forerunners of a plague of dead frogs like last year. Outside the library, while we waited for people to register, I saw a saddlebags, a Halloween pennant, and a yellow bodied dragonfly. A monarch and a red spotted purple flitted around the liriope. What I didn't see was anyone to register. Fortunately there was a breeze because I was quite sweaty by the time I was through. Cumulus clouds streamed out of the West under higher cirrus clouds that looked like a faint thumbprint.
On the front patio, I found two different kind of potter wasp nests. Wind whipped the trees but nothing else happened till around 6:30pm when a few sprinkles fell. Rain began in earnest around 7pm. 
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