Losing it

Recently lost: Company ID.
School ID
Cell phone
Charger kit for new cell phone
Mind (If found, keep, I will just lose it again)
Something going on brain, telling it to not pay attention to much of anything
Why? No idea
Tried to upload pictures to include with this post
Camera batteries dead
Sigh
Camera now in trash can. I'll retrieve it, but it felt good to pitch it.
The pictures are of bugs, namely caterpillars which soon will be black Swallowtail butterflies.
They have been devouring the foliage of my potted fennel bulbs, which is OK; I only want the bulbs.
There are 3 of them, 2 bigger than the third. As of this writing, the big guys are just over a half inch long. They spent the past day motionless on the stalks, but this evening were on the nosh again.
We have a lot of birds in the backyard (feeders) so I am hoping these plump fellows don't become an avian appetizer. I'd love to see the metamorphosis from bug to butterfly.
Meanwhilst... I shall return with a caterpillar picture, should brain and technology cooperate.
Unless I lose it again.

Wednesday Whimsy

I love midsummer. In our quiet neighborhood crickets and locusts buzz and chirp loudly through dusk to midnight. By 5 a.m. the birds take over the symphony.
Tonight we had the proverbial stray shower drench us, accompanied by bursts of thunder loud enough to send Twist into the closet, her favorite hiding place.
Not before we had a nice interlude in the back yard when I came home from work. And before she realized I was taking her picture. Something about the sound of the camera spooks her.
So many other things I wanted to write about tonight. I blame it on the Pirates. I was watching and they were winning. Uh oh. ;)