Thursday, July 11, 2019

Hot wind

I found a snakeberry in the grass.  They used to be everywhere but I think the cinquefoil choked them out.  Threadwaisted wasps were still obsessed with the mountain mint. 
A variety of dragonflies perched around the yard.  Blue dashers were the most numerous.  I also saw slaty skimmers.  One skimmer was very tattered.  A blue dasher teamed up with the Argiope to bar the path between the rue and the hibiscus.  A Halloween pennant perched on the highest pine candle. 

A heron took possession of the lake.  A yellow crowned night heron hunted crabs along the water's edge. 

After dark, clouds rubbed against each other and lit the sky in flashes.  The moon was swallowed up a cloud but Jupiter was bright in the Southeast.  Then it rained at last. 


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