Rain

A pine warbler made a breakfast visit to the barkbutter balls.  A crow wandered through the yard.  Titmice hid in the sakaki.  A small, brown click beetle was in the bottom of the blueberry bucket.  A black and white wasp and a yellow skipper drank mountain mint nectar.  A blue dasher used a perch.  A leaf cutter bee drank from the milkweed. 

I thought I'd beat the rain by swimming early but it started sooner than predicted.  Before that, I fished two snails and a bee out of the water.  A large feather floated by.  As I hustled indoors I noticed that the Argiope had caught something as big as it was and they were still wrestling.  A brief interlude of sun came between the morning rain and the afternoon thunderstorm.  A brown headed nuthatch extracted a seed from under a finch's tail feathers.  A wet Carolina wren got some suet.  A hungry fledgling bluebird got some seeds. 

The storm lasted till nearly 4pm and left the air very humid.  The Argiope worked on its web.  A widow skimmer glittered on a perch.  A black swallowtail flitted around the rue, then perched on the rosemary and annoyed the dragonfly.  Some skinks emerged into the wet sunshine.