Windy

The storm left sky and earth scrubbed and shining.  But the wind was still gusty. Turtles lined up to bask, overseen by cormorants.  Lots of periwinkles found resting places above the water.  An egret paced beside the shore.  A little moth spread its wings on the window.  The wind trashed an orchard spider's web.  Geese brought their six goslings to graze. 

A dragonfly zipped around the yard about 18" above the grass.  I wasted pixels and only got a blur.  Earlier I saw a black and a tiger swallowtail.  I found a patch of a different kind of moss, Polytrichum commune - Common Hair Cap Moss.  Most moss in the yard is either pincushion - Leucobryum glaucum or  Fern Moss - Thuidium delicatulum.  I believe the stuff on and under the retaining wall is cypress-leaved plaitmoss Hypnum cupressiforme.  The fuzzy fiddleheads of Christmas fern were beginning to unfurl. 

K cut off the redwood branches that were blocking my view of the lake.  Thus I saw a great blue heron land on a dead tree.  Then an egret landed on a nearby log.  A raft of cormorants paddled down the lake past the egret and some got out of the water.  The egret joined the heron which eventually departed.  So did the cormorants. The feral cat came by at dusk, and was rolling on the lower patio as though in catnip.