Archive for the ‘Dragonflies’ Tag

Capturing The Moment — Scarlet Darter Dragonfly   7 comments

Sabino Canyon August 7 2013Scarlet Darter Dragonfly — Image by kenne (To see excellent photos of dragonflies and creatures of flight, check out Ned Harris’ Flickr account.)

The Copper Dragonfly

the transparent wings of
the copper dragonfly
yet another mirror
through the sky

— Stu Harley

 

Capturing The Moment — Dancing With A Dragonfly. . .   5 comments

SCVN Nature Walk #3“Dancing with a Dragonfly” — Image by kenne

dancing with a dragonfly…

The shimmer of blue changes 
As you dragonfly move,
Your cellophane wings
Fragile, yet brings
You to me,
I cannot see the world
As you do, true?

You can see mine
            Just fine.
The sunlight
glints as the 
Colour changes
To a different hue.

one moment
Green
The next
Blue

Dancing with you
As you float then soar,
is impossible …
As you pitch and roll
Leave me entranced
As you exit…

Without saying so much
As goodbye,

Must mean,
You will,
Be back,
Soon.

Please.

— by Darrell Wade Elverum 

Capturing The Moment: Frozen Dragonfly — Brrr!   3 comments

H6yMi6fUB_1JR964xxG8RxsYArlNNn1lR5PWutchIbNXzbCYopzRTQ1etu2JmF945UzWx8e02cDVSAPhoto by Donald Kolinski

It has been around freezing the last few morning in Sabino Canyon where I have taken photos of dragonflies in the past, but this guy was photographed near Jamestown, CO by Donald Kolinski. The image appeared in the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012.

kenne

Sex In The Desert Marsh — Dragon is Draggin’   2 comments

Dragon is Draggin’ (Sweetwater Wetlands Park)– Image by kenne

Dragon is Draggin’

Dragonflies in tandem

Pausing on an old cattail leaf

She taps the water

Depositing eggs

Continuing tandem flight

Darting through the desert marsh

In their love “mating wheel.”

— kenne