Isaias had calmed to tropical storm status by the time it arrived here. A little before 1:00am my phone blasted a siren to announce a tornado warning. I couldn't even hear any wind. By morning there was plenty of wind thrashing the trees but I didn't see any damage in our yard. I did see debris in the creek, downstream. Maybe an inch of rain fell, or rather blew in on a West wind.
The sun started coming through rents in the clouds around 10:00am. Chickadees found the seed feeder that K had set down on the concrete. We rehung planters and feeders. A brown thrasher had some bark butter. A blue jay saw me watching and
flew off. Crows were eating figs and trying to teach a fledgling to do
the same. It was really funny to watch.
Insects swarmed the flowers like they were starved. A black swallowtail and what I believe was a dark-morph tiger swallowtail fed on the butterfly milkweed. A fiery skipper preferred the mountain mint despite the wasps.
A female common whitetail dragonfly had an advantage because they stay low out of the wind. Later I saw a blue dasher and a slaty skimmer.
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