Gray day

Another dismal day with no sun and too much wind.  A dark bird perched in the pine and seemed to be eating something.  The mystery plant finally put forth a little blue flower.  It was pretty but I was expecting something more impressive.  But there are more buds.  The spiderweb by the rose was flapping in the wind and finally tore loose.  Later I found the Argiope  under its collapsed web.  K complained that an Argiope on the front patio was connecting its web to the bonsai trees.  Only two monarch caterpillars were left and the butterflyweed was almost leafless.  The chrysalis was the same and so was the remaining black swallowtail caterpillar.  I glimpsed a dark butterfly that was gone before I could be sure what it was.