Morning was overcast though at times it thinned to let through bleary sunlight. A snowy egret prowled around the dam outfall. Then the tide rose and covered the spillway. It immersed the swamp fleabane next to the dock. The regular seed feeder visitors were upset that we took everything down.
The argiope spider was gone from the spot where I originally found it, but after considerable searching, I located it in the middle of the rue. Young caterpillars were all over the rue. A silver spotted skipper landed on a morning glory. The milkweed bugs seem to be growing in numbers. They have not found the red milkweed that came up from seed, but aphids did. Wasps were hunting. A basilica spider worked on her string of eggs. She was tiny in comparison to the Argiope. A couple of red spotted purples stayed one flutter ahead of the camera. A palamedes swallowtail also got away.
Wind gradually got stronger and louder as the morning went on. I decided to go for a swim, and a good thing I did as the skimmer was packed solid. I rescued a mama wolf spider and her kiddies, and innumerable crickets plus a few ground beetles. A frog got away.
Rain finally started after 3pm. It was not heavy and it only lasted an hour or two. At sunset colored light leaked through and revealed clouds racing West. Then the sky went dark and the day ended.
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