A beautiful day, though very humid. The sky got hazy in the afternoon and some thunderous-looking clouds piled up, and then disappeared. Lots of butterflies were flying about, a sulphur, a palamedes, a red spotted purple, and others. I only saw one dragonfly, at the top of the cherry. A thread of spiderweb appeared to connect the tops of two trees.
The milkweed bugs were busy mating on the butterfly weed. Wasps and carpenter bees went about their business. One green June bug kept falling into the water until I finally dumped it behind the steps where a raised rim kept it away. I also rescued several ground beetles and crickets. I saw some little skinks, including one that drowned. Leaf hoppers, earwigs, and lacewings drowned too.
I took down the bird house and we removed all the feeders and brought in plants in preparation for Florence. Forecasts got progressively less alarmist throughout the day as the hurricane track appeared to settle just North of the border between the Carolinas.
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