Buggy

The first daylily flower appeared.  Hibiscus and cannas popped up.  I had a morning meeting.  After lunch, the air was muggy, hot and humid, and the sky was hazy.  Thankfully, there was wind.  I glimpsed dragonflies, cabbage whites, and an orange butterfly.  A hummer checked to see if the milkweed buds had opened.  They hadn't.  A seven-spotted ladybird beetle rested on a cinquefoil leaf.  Wasps lurked around the rue.  Tiny bugs and mites kept walking on me which was unwise of them.  I tried to just flick them away but I think some did not survive it.  What we thought was a turtle was just a black trash bag floating on the creek.  It rained again in the evening.  We are rapidly catching up after a dry April.