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we were at the ball park last week for scott and joe's game and there were about 3 dragonflies flitting around. one kept landing by me and then on kate's foot. i got some cool pics of it



almost in the shadow of my umbrella


on the blocks, love this shadow

in the grass


and on kate's toe...


it kept settling on her toe, almost like it was posing for me

I'm already seeing dragonflies in my area.

we see them year round here, but they are more active right now, and seeing it land on her foot was so cool. i could have reached out and touched it.

Nice TAT!

You did get some good shots. I like the one where you mentioned the shadow. It looks like an aircraft saying "Ready for take off!" Poised to flit off. I don't have as many as I used to. But I have a lot more bats. I wonder if there is a correlation there?

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thanks thorny,i'll tell her you said so, and a better picture of it is down in blooming fine in the gardener's chat.

thank you all for helping me enjoy the shots. i watched a lot more dragon fly than i did baseball. there was a green one as well, but it was camera shy.

I just love dragon flies! and I've never seen one sit on anyones toe! amazing one of kind shot there! I also like the tat. I read about dragon flies a while back and they are truely amazing insects. yes, they are mighty hunters. did anyone know they live their first 2-3 years in the water, and only fly around for a month or so?