Hunting Dragons
You many not have noticed, but in the last picture from yesterday's post, there was an unusual object in the bottom center...
Sailing over the water in flamboyant stripes...
A dragonfly.
It was pure luck in the capture, but it made that photo extra special!
That entire pond was humming with activity from at least three different kinds of dragonflies.
With A. A. Milne's poem (and song from Girl Scout camp) floating through my head, I was ready to hunt for some dragons!
They were everywhere and hardly ever in focus, as it turns out.
But I continued the hunt... thank goodness for digital photography. Film would have been a killer!
Damselflies were brilliant blue dashes of action - - -
This WOULD have been a great shot as a damselfly munches on a moth... but my focus captured the dragonfly under and behind it instead.
So close!
I never could get close enough to REALLY capture a dragon...
Perhaps I needed Pooh beside me!
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Self promotion is a difficult thing for me to do, but I do try, on occasion, to get this blog OUT THERE and increase my readership. Attendance is doing quite well, but on a whim I entered my story about the bald eagle in a contest. Remember Snake? That entry was one of 1,000. I'm thrilled to say it made the top twenty in the Visual Category of BlogHer's Voice of the Year! I'm just tickled pink... which is just faded red... 
... Thanks to BlogHer and the judges that made Red Dirt In My Soul visible to many more readers!
... Thanks to BlogHer and the judges that made Red Dirt In My Soul visible to many more readers!****
Anyone with tips on how to format text without having it revert to the default when you hit "publish"... please leave me a comment! This is driving me BANANAS! It USED to work!
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July 16, 2010 This Is Getting Exciting!
July 16, 2009 The Setting
July 16, 2008 No entry.
Posted by Carol at 7/16/2011 9:30 PM 
Categories: Ranchlife, Wyoming, Scenery, Photography
Tags: ranch Wyoming nature
Categories: Ranchlife, Wyoming, Scenery, Photography
Tags: ranch Wyoming nature
Dragonflies are gorgeous. Along similar lines, one of the more amazing things I've experienced was a night in Oregon,right before dark, when we noticed shapes zipping around over the water and realized there were dozens of tiny little bats.
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I once was surrounded by gorgeous violet green swallows ducking and diving all around me, through the grass and trees of my backyard on an early morning. I stood amazed at their speed and deftness. They were everywhere. It was spectacular!
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Oh, I share your frustration with photographing dragonflies!
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I'm currently loving the cliff swallows by our shed roof... I'm sure we'd be overrun with mosquitoes if it wasn't for them!
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Congratulations! You deserve to be at the top. I love your photos.
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Hey... SALLY! I do believe I have a wedding video ready to be picked up. When you coming back? and thank you.
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