I see dragonflies in the garden pretty regularly, but they are hard to photograph. They like to land on the very tips of spiky plants and sit, but just you move towards them with the camera and off they fly.
Today, however, I spied a dragonfly that looked like it might stay put. It let me walk closer and closer.
Right-in-your-face close.
It left me at one point and I thought it was gone for good, but it made a big circle over the garden and landed behind me on another plant. Perhaps it wanted to have a photograph with a new backdrop.
Okay.
What big eyes you have!
There were other creatures in the garden as well.
A jumping spider.
And a parsleyworm, the caterpillar stage of the black swallowtail.
In spite of working this weekend, I got a lot done. I’ve done a lot of filing. Michaela’s 5th grade notebook/scrapbook is nearly complete, and I’ll post on that when it’s done. I have just a few more things to glue in. I’m working on filling in her final report card for 5th grade. I’ve got a lot of our 6th grade plans under way, including my reading of Charlotte Mason’s works, printing off the weekly lesson plans for Year 6, and Friday night I ordered over a dozen books, taking my time and finding a few old ones with gorgeous illustrations.
Happy Sunday Evening,
Lynn
for you to leave a comment, but you can also e-mail me at lynn AT thehealthyhomeschool.com
Dear Lynn,
Oh, what a gorgeous dragonfly! They do have big eyes, don’t they? He seems quite photogenic. We have lots of jumping spiders here, but no swallowtail caterpillars, alas. No Monarchs on the milkweeds, either, so we just have to content ourselves with the beetles on the plants for capturing!
I’m looking forward to seeing the school scrapbook for Michaela.
Love,
Marqueta
Oh Lynn,
The pictures are beautiful! We have dragonflies here also, but I have yet to get a picture of
them ;(
Thank you for sharing your garden…
many blessings to you and your dear family,
lady m
Marqueta, I love to see the dragonflies. They seem like ancient creatures to me.
Beetles are fun too though!
LadyM, thank you. They are hard to get pictures of!
Lynn
I believe that the caterpillar you have pictured is the same as my little girl found 2 of, on our dill plants! I figured they were the caterpillar stage of the swallow tail!
Hannah, they love dill! In fact, I had a nice stand beginning in the front garden and they have eaten it nearly to the ground! Oh well.
Thanks for leaving a comment.
Lynn