Windy

Cumulus hustled West in the early morning.  A dark cloud threatened rain but moved on.  By noon the sky was mostly blue.  A Carolina wren hopped around on the roof.  A tiny skinklet wriggled into the mulch.  Two fox cubs circled the pool and later one came up on the patio and sat down for a scratch.  A blue jay flew across my line of sight.  A black swallowtail investigated the herbs and some other butterflies appeared briefly, unless they were blowing leaves.

I saw another wren but this one didn't have the bold eye line of a Carolina - I think it may be a winter wren.  A slaty skimmer clung to one of my perches and a silver-spotted skipper landed on a morning glory tendril. A palamedes swallowtail flitted through.  Bumble and carpenter bees visited the lavender.  The wind blew a lot of leaves and pine needles down.  I rescued some spiders and crickets.  A buzzard and another bird circled high overhead.  A laughing gull flew downstream.  It has already lost its black head for gray eye shadow.   

Update: Everybody says it's a house wren, not a winter wren.