While making doors, we saw an interesting natural event: a spider wasp hauling off a paralyzed wolf spider.

After watching it for awhile, it did manage to pull the spider up into the garage. Um, no thank you. I usually leave spiders alone, but one harboring wasp eggs? Not in my garage. It was taken care of.

A ray of light from my garden to you.

My honey suckle is blooming again too. Nice!

Every time a new flower blooms in our meadow I think I have a new favorite flower! This week’s favorite is the American basket flower. I love that it looks like a purple thistle without the prickly bits!

Now one bonus flower (Standing cypress aka Scarlet gilia) is one thing, but two is suspicious. I think that I planted a hummingbird and song bird flower mix as well as a shade flower mix, and Lady Bird Johnson’s mix. All at different times in the last year and a half, all (I thought), duds. Apparently we are getting the right amount of rain for the meadow. So there we go, mystery solved. Kind of exciting to see what my next favorite flower is going to be.

Uh, hello. My iNaturalist app tells me that this might be a variety of bark scorpion that was crawling across my back porch. It was on its way to being a former bark scorpion; I’m pretty sure it was suffering from the effects of the spray the exterminator put down around the house last week (not around the coop, just the house). It did not have to suffer long. Out in the meadow, under a nice rock is a good place for scorpions. On my back porch is not.