In the late afternoon, the sky was very deep blue. The water was full of tree detritus, leaves, pine needles, chewed acorns, cherry stems, cedar sprigs, and old catkins. I found one of the black swallowtail caterpillars drowned. I also found a little fiddler crab with a body no bigger than my thumbnail. It pinched my palm hard enough to leave tiny punctures, and it left its big claw fastened to me. I nevertheless released it to hike back downhill to the shoreline. An ant rescued itself by crawling up my back and took a lot of persuading to leave me alone. At least two monarch caterpillars were still feeding and, unlike the other critters, were willing to pose. And that was all I saw.
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