A monarch came for breakfast. Later I saw swallowtails edged in yellow, black or palamedes or both. A butterfly alighted on my chair where I couldn't see most of it but I think it was a painted lady - it had three white spots in the outer corners of the front wings.
Hummers were around all day, as were blue jays. One blue jay kept dropping acorns in the pool A blue dasher perched at lunch and a slaty skimmer at supper. Several skinks prowled the concrete at lunch.
Two dead skinks and two very dead frogs were in the skimmer. Nothing required rescuing. I saw several glass snails on the sides of the pool. I checked on the argiope and found it still in its web in the same spot.
Apparently when I emptied all my seeds around the yard in May, before surgery, one of them was a red milkweed just like those I admired at church. Beauty berries were beginning to turn purple. Spartina and saltbush were flowering. In the West haze congealed into clouds that at sunset glowed gold then magenta.
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