At breakfast time I put out fresh bark butter balls. I sprayed neem oil on the hibiscus and the rose, avoiding the part where the mantis lurked. And later I also swapped out the hummer feeder. Then I was gone for hours. The volunteer butterfly milkweed bloomed again after being stripped by seven caterpillars. The flowers attracted a tiger swallowtail and a cloudless sulphur. But the swallowtail would not share so the sulphur visited a zinnia instead.
I found a skink floating and tried to revive it but I was too late. A dragonfly was perched on the new stake when I went out to swim. But it disappeared some time before thunder chased me out of the water. I think it was a slaty skimmer. The thunder accompanied a dark, slow-moving cloud that violated the weather prediction. And later as darkness fell, there was rain.
At breakfast time I put out fresh bark butter balls. I sprayed neem oil on the hibiscus and the rose, avoiding the part where the mantis lurked. And later I also swapped out the hummer feeder. Then I was gone for hours. The volunteer butterfly milkweed bloomed again after being stripped by seven caterpillars. The flowers attracted a tiger swallowtail and a cloudless sulphur. But the swallowtail would not share so the sulphur visited a zinnia instead. 
I found a skink floating and tried to revive it but I was too late. A dragonfly was perched on the new stake when I went out to swim. But it disappeared some time before thunder chased me out of the water. I think it was a slaty skimmer. The thunder accompanied a dark, slow-moving cloud that violated the weather prediction. And later as darkness fell, there was rain.
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