Maybe I should never have been turned loose with a digital camera. It took me a while to learn how to use it, but since I have I've never wanted to use anything else. When I see something cool out in my yard I run in the house, grab the camera, and see if I can capture it in pictures.

Yesterday I noticed this dragonfly on some dead wild rose bushes. Its wings are not transparent; they just match the sky. For a while I thought it was dead because it didn't budge while I took as many pictures as I wanted. It was fine, though; it flew away afterward.