The air is still clear without the haze of last week. A threatening cloud loomed in the west but moved off north. There's a breeze and the temperature is comfortable.A Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) dragonfly with striped sides and blue eyes and tail hung about in the shade at the deep end of the pool for much of the morning. Wikipedia says that the dusty white bloom on some dragonflies and cicadas is called pruinescence, or pruinosity.
Various young birds were screaming for food and doing the wing-tremble dance to hurry their poor parents along. It's hard to be sure looking up, but I think one family were titmice.
A black swallowtail was laying eggs on the parsley and I saw a tiny caterpillar on the rue, no bigger than the letter l.
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