The lovely weather, mid 80s, breezy, and low humidity, brought out dragonflies that circled the house, round and round. I think there were pondhawks among them. A male blue dasher and a male great blue skimmer rested long enough for pictures. The usual two paper wasp species were still feeding on the rue at 8pm. The only butterfly was a cabbage white. A blue tailed skink was guarding the strawberries till K moved them.
Two healthy milkweed plants have yet to make any flowers to show what kind they are, but the butterfly milkweed was blooming. I believe one sunflower germinated in the fence corner by the figs. A volunteer coriander bloomed in the front yard. Our lawn and many others were carpeted with white clover so I think local beehives must be healthy. Small pale flowers marked the blue-eyed grass that was actually growing in the grass. The rain all last week prevented mowing so the lawn was full of flowers.
Several kinds of mushrooms popped up. Several Amanita muscaria var. guessowii looked ready for fairies or leprechauns. A gray mushroom near the pecan might have been a grisette. The third I saw was too nibbled to guess it identity.
Bluebirds and blue jays still wanted to be fed. The female red bellied woodpecker peeked at the suet but flew away.
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