Morning brought goldfinches and hummers. The one Argiope made it through the rain. I caught a blur of the coy tiger swallowtail. A gray hairstreak, Strymon melinus, enjoyed the mountain mint. And a monarch visited the butterfly milkweed.
The sun was fierce so I swam in the morning while there was still shade. Among my rescues were two small brown click beetles. I also fished out a mama spider covered with spiderlings. An anglewing katydid was too far gone.
A skink climbed the wall. A widow skimmer used a bamboo stake as a perch. A different species perched atop a twig on the wild cherry. Another, maybe a blue dasher, landed on the metal cap on the post which must have been hot. And a slaty skimmer clung to another stake. I got some pictures of the small gray leafcutter bee and took too many of the great golden digger wasp. An odd orange fly turned up.
The brown thrashers put in an appearance mid day but kept screened by vegetation. The rain turned the blueberries to mush. I've never seen that happen before.
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