Hairstreak

I admired the flowers in the front since the day lilies and hibiscus finished in back.  The mountain mint had its usual complement of bees and wasps, plus a black and white banded sand wasp.  And a gray hairstreak butterfly Strymon melinus visited the mountain mint.  

The black swallowtail caterpillar hadn't gone far.  A dragonfly took the perch outside my window. A swamp cicada, Neotibicen tibicen, for some strange reason. clung to the patio concrete.  In the afternoon, the sky clouded over and threatened, but didn't deliver.  I swam anyway and rescued beetles and a mama spider.  The wind kept blowing needles and leaves into the water faster than I could clean up.