Recent garden visitors

A Bloom Day prelude...











Sipping passion's nectar.



This is an Icheneumon wasp. It may eat "wood wasps, horntail wasps (sawflies), bollworms, armyworms, wood borers, beetle larvae and[/or] moth larvae."



If you click this picture, and then look at the "original" size, you can see this guy has something in his mouth!

Edgewood Park

I took a walk in Edgewood Park today.



I saw lots of Clarkia





and Calochortus.







Two species of Calochortus, in fact.





And here and there some coyote mint (Monardella villosa)



As you can see, the grasses have dried out for summer.



In the woods that stay green all year, lizards



Mimulus



Toxicodendron



and yet more Clarkia.



Elsewhere, human life goes on.