Smoke

Code red air quality alert issued in Hampton Roads due to wildfires.  The wildfires are more than a thousand miles away but the thick haze was very apparent beginning yesterday.  While I couldn't smell anything, I coughed and my eyes felt irritated while I was outside.  A widow skimmer stood guard on one of the perches but something bit me anyway.  I rescued a brown click beetle that had wedged itself into a crevice and would have starved or fallen into the water.  A mama spider hid behind a stick I had placed to help insects crawl out of the water.  I also fished out an acorn weevil.  

A hummer got a good, long drink.  There seemed to be fewer bees and wasps on the mountain mint today.  The orchard spider's web was a mess but the spider seemed fine.  The drought had leaves turning.