I’m far behind, but I don’t even care because beginning some time between 0230h and 0330h on Thursday night, it RAINED! Free water came from the sky, and I didn’t have to carry it, or pay for it, or anything! So, without further (god knows there’s already been enough) ado…

Big-ass cicada killer. I think it was stunned; maybe hit a car or something.

Pretty lady Spicebush friends are always welcome in the Bistro!

So are pretty partridge pea flowers!

FINALLY! I didn’t even notice these guys until I found this one, trundling across the dying grass in search of “up” to pupate. For the first time in…ever, I have PIPEVINE Swallowtail cats!

Also a stylish bracelet.

I turned him loose on the sweetgum where the Snakeroot Swallowtails all went to pupate.

There were three more left, but they were still eating, so I left them be.

They did some serious nomming, but I’d been so busy trying to keep everything watered enough to stay alive that I didn’t notice. The pipevine is on irrigation, so it didn’t need my attention, at least not directly.

Pretty black form lady Tiger Swallowtail.

Our fat bullfrog male. He’s fearless; when I walk by the pond, most of the frogs squeak and dive, but this guy just sits and looks at me. He thinks the pond is his very own.

I think this is an early-ish instar lappet moth, AKA Throw Rug Caterpillar.

This will warrant its own post when Tree Dude does his stuff, but…yikes.