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?

Dragonflies, interpreted

The skies have been full of dragonflies since early summer. By late July the beauties are about: the reds, the lime greens and the large blues. I have yet to see the heavy blacks that look like they are carrying extra packs.
I really wanted to see what I could do in my new found art of watercolor.


When a good friend saw my little painting, she suggested putting it on a hat. So I painted a fly on my only plain ball cap. Of course the fabric and the fabric paints do not allow the detail of the watercolor, but it is a fun look. I think I may get some more plain caps and paint them up!

Dragonflies

Dragonflies are everywhere. I think they have consumed all of the biting May flies. Sit outside and they will light on you, perhaps considering the adage "How do eat an elephant? One bite at a time!"

Early Flyers

One of the first spotted dragonflies of the year, this one waits for the sun to warm it after the temps dropped overnight.

I was on the pier this am watching the Kingfishers and was greeted by a single barn swallow flying round and round. Another early summer resident. The first hummingbird made his presence known on Easter Sunday swinging back and forth at my kitchen window. Yet my White-throated sparrows are hanging on, maybe they will stay for the summer! They are busy singing happy harmonies, sounding just like the birds in my childhood Disney cartoons.

While they are here

Another dragonfly, this one in gold. They are all over the tops of the corn fields. Cut the grass and they fill the yard. Enjoy them while they are here.

Jewels of the July Day

Graceful and ferocious at once, the dragonfly is much desired for his mosquito and biting fly appetite. The yards, fields and roadsides are full of floating gold, green, red, blue and more shiny "jewels".