I only had the morning and neither the water nor the air were as warm as I would have liked. But the sunshine was at work heating the day. All the spiders were where I left them. As I watched, a little bee dodged around me and smacked into the web. The spider paid no attention and the bee didn't struggle. When I came back later, the bee was gone, not bundled in silk, so maybe it got loose. I saw wasps on the mountain mint but not honeybees.
There were two frogs in the pool, one bigger the other little.I chased the little one first and after I caught it and shooed it away I went after the larger frog. It was a wily critter but I have bigger flippers. It's fun to chase them but I worry that the pool chemicals are bad for frogs.
When I got out up popped a skink. It had business at the East end of the retaining wall and didn't seem to care if I took pictures.
I found a well-grown black swallowtail caterpillar and some first instar caterpillars on the parsley. A monarch caterpillar munched on the butterfly milkweed. A cloudless sulphur fluttered ove the mountain mint and kept going.
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