Hummers pronounced the juice satisfactory. An abundance of dragonflies included blue dashers, skimmers, and a big darner. The mountain mint began blooming.
Hot sunshine was frequently interrupted by clouds, some wispy, some heavy with unshed water. Daylilies were at their peak, as were gladiolus. A rabbit led me to the blueberries, that is, to discover that some were ripe or almost ripe. Rabbits have been scarce since the fox years. Of course we haven't been growing vegetables either.
A happy blue jay settled in on the bark butter balls. But then crows arrived. The furious blue jay kamikazi dived on its larger corvid cousins.
A skipper feasted on the daisies. I found quite a few spiders in the pool. Some were wolf spiders that like walking on water but others looked like baby crab spiders. I also found two kinds of snail, a big glass snail and a tiny, perhaps freshly hatched snail with a pointed spiral. A fly with a shiny green body rested on a violet leaf.
A bluebird caught the late sun from a high twig in the oak.
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