I missed “my” big flame skimmer dragonflies for a few days. Had that incarnation of their lifecycle ended? Had a bird eaten them? One way or another, I thought they’d met their demise; however, yesterday, I saw one of them again, in the company of the little one. The small flame skimmer has “vest buttons” [...]
As I crept closer and closer to this dragonfly with my camera, it kept flying off and coming back to the bamboo stake. This time, it brought lunch, but didn’t offer to share its little fly. I hadn’t really thought about dragonflies as predators, although I vaguely knew they were. As he relished his prey, [...]
The longest day of the year—our summer solstice—after a long, long winter. What a glorious day! High 80 degrees, warm sun, gentle breezes, garlic drying on the clothes’ line. Flame skimmer dragonflies darting through the garden—little “helicopters” diving and inadvertently entertaining me. Damselflies skimming the water of Facundo’s pond and landing on the greenery of [...]
The passage of seasons becomes noticeable in August—always. As the days shorten to fall, I see a different quality, a softness, to the light, and perceive the harbingers of the new season. I found a dry sycamore leaf in the garage last week, an early indicator of the changes that occur each passing minute to [...]
