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Skipper and Zinnia

I had a visitor today. I think it’s a European skipper.

A half-drowned wasp clinging to a zinnia

Raindrops on day lily

My butterfly bush had a visitor this evening.

This fellow was outside the library, along Jordan Ave.

And yes, the grass is BROWN and CRISPY and STAYS CRUNCHY IN MILK. I don’t think it’s ever going to rain again.

He bellied up to the catnip buffet and never left.

This means it’s officially Spring, right?

I found him on my patio this evening when I got home from work. Poor little guy.

My sedum is swarming with honey bees. I love it!

Deer skull and mouse skull. (Or maybe the little one is a vole or shrew skull. I have no idea. It came from an owl pellet.)

These little guys (arachnids but not spiders) seem to really like the house where I’m cat sitting. They swarm all over the garage door.