Waves of rain

I was busy during the sunny morning.  At lunch, three black swallowtails danced around the rue with occasional excursions to the parsley.  A blue dasher watched the buzzing wasps and bees on the herbs.  Blue mud wasps joined the crowd of sand wasps, digger wasps, threadwaisted wasps, and scoliid wasps. I glimpsed a skink disappearing into a hole in the steps. 

All afternoon starting at 2:40pm, thunderstorms rolled through with short intense bursts of rain.  Just before the rain began, a yellow crowned night heron landed on the dock.  In between the waves, high flying dragonflies picked off the little humidity-loving pests.