Dragonfly Contact?

If one is around plenty of nature, as I am, and tries to engage with the other creatures of this world one may find another willing creature!

I went out to shoot pics of a farmer's old International truck that was parked nearby and was greeted by a dusky blue dragonfly.  Dragonflies usually scoot if you approach, but this one just flew up and back down.  Perhaps it was engaged with the lens, but it seemed to listen to my stream of compliments and kept posing for me. I shot for quite awhile and may do another post with all those shots, but for tonight here is one of  my dragonfly, looking in earnest it seems.  I offered my hand at the end of my shoot and he gladly climbed aboard and we said our goodbyes.

My dragonfly, posing as Earnest in "The Importance of Being Earnest."  Isn't it an interesting creature?

A flower walk before the storm

Tropical system Beryl was headed back this way after visiting us in an earlier life.  Before the rains came in large drops and then soft and steady patterns, I took advantage of the cloudy skies to do a quick walkabout and shoot some of my flowers.                                                                                                                    


The small violet flowers of clover, so hard to pull up!

Yellow and Orange Lillies and white Foxglove, a bumblebee fav!

Hollyhock in pink and a multi-colored
hydrangea!

Sunflower! an automatic in my garden
and black eyed Susan ready to go. Another one I couldn't pull.  I like flowers with my vegies.

"Mistah Buzzard"

As a child of the South I read/am familiar with Thornton Burgess' books.  One I have in my possession is "The Adventures of OL' Mistah Buzzard".  I have plenty of respect for buzzards (Vultures) and the necessary job that they do.  There is a tree on Highway 168 near Aydlett that is routinely full of buzzards resting.  I have pined for an opportunity to shoot pics! 
The opportunity came to me in a smaller number and window of time:  the empty lot next to me!

I spied them late it seems (just after 9am), but was able to get a few handheld shots.  There were three and when I first spotted them they were all in a drying posture.

From the book:
"Ol' Mistah Buzzard was there holding his wings half spread for the air to blow throught them and the sun to fall on them."

Yes, that is it simply.  What a wonderful sight!

Airship Spotting

Airships have long been built in Elizabeth City, maybe 25 miles by crow from the island. The airships used to be a regular sight, out on trials, but we haven't seen any for awhile. I spotted one yesterday as I hit the causeway headed out. I caught up with it again as it floated over the farm fields on it's way back to E-City. It's a cool thing to see.

A County Goose

Our County awhile ago elected the Canada Goose as graphic representation of the native Indian name for our area: Caritoke. The given translation of "Land of the Wild Goose" may imply more than a single type of goose (Snows and Blues) and perhaps even the Swans.

Garden Warbler

The newly tilled garden provides a new place to forage for birds like this Yellow-rumped Warbler. A sunny day brought out the Cardinals to sing, the chickadees to measure a nesting box and a gardener to once again move the soil: all signs of a promising spring.