Fireflies

I learned that the 5th of June is World Environment Day.   The fancy daylily with the red ruffled edges began blooming.  So did the butterfly milkweed.  I saw several skinks in the course of the day. 

A teneral male Eastern pondhawk rested in the mulch.  When fully adult the male is all blue.  A crow perched on a branch in the shade with its beak open, not cawing, maybe panting.  I rescued another one of those spiders with the enlarged forelegs and a pale back stripe. 

Rain left the creek caramel-colored and turbid.  Dragonflies were out hunting after supper but I had no luck with the camera.  The first fireflies I've seen this year blinked into view at twilight,