Summery

It was a warm, beautiful day!  The dawn creek mirrored the sunlit bank.  First the yellow cat and then the black cat stared into the shrubbery.  A brown thrasher visited at breakfast.  I know it's anthropomorphism, but brown thrashers always look outraged to me.  This one didn't like what was left of the suet.  A brown headed nuthatch had to wait for a titmouse to hammer its seed.  A Carolina wren sampled the barkbutter balls.  

A great blue heron perched on the dock.  The water was still very fresca, but I rescued two young skinks.  A red spotted purple flitted around and even drank where I'd dripped pool water while taking skink pics.  Earlier, a tiger swallowtail flew among the trees.  The five monarch caterpillars wreaked devastation on the butterfly milkweed.  I hope they pupate soon!  The one black swallowtail caterpillar probably had enough rue left to finish that life stage.  The chrysalis was unchanged.  I still could only find one yellow garden spider.