One of the benefits of a pool is that it catches things you'd never notice otherwise. Today it caught the shed exoskeleton of a young praying mantis. Of course the water also caught the usual complement of scarab beetles and small wasps. I caught a frog and bid it depart before it became "dearly departed."
I thought I saw a yellow butterfly, but it was a goldfinch. A mockingbird visited the barkbutter balls but got away from the camera. I found two of the monarch caterpillars on the milkweed. Bees and wasps went about their business on the mountain mint.
