I woke up at dawn to a red gold sky but turned over and went back to sleep. By lunch, a beautiful, sunny, breezy day had warmed into the mid 80s. The sky was hazy with contrails unraveling into ribbons of white fuzz. I saw an osprey but wasn't quick enough for a photo. A Carolina wren, a mockingbird or two, cardinals, chickadees, titmice, a crow, and an extended family of house finches all wanted to be fed. A downy was too wary while I was outside.
I saw a little butterfly (again) and a tiger swallowtail. Prince baskettails patrolled at treetop height and a blue dasher monitored ground level from a perch. Wasps were plentiful. I rescued a spider and a beetle. A bluetailed skink dashed across the patio from mountain mint to azalea. The haze became a white sky by 5pm and the temperature dropped into the 70s.
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