For some reason, we have had more dragonflies in our yard this summer than ever before! We haven’t seen any like this orange one Ann saw at Doodles and Jots, but our dragonflies do pose the way hers did! I love seeing them perched on my garden posts – keeping watch over my plants!I was pleased to capture some fun dragonfly photos with the kids.Â
Dragonflies are funny looking animals, in part because of their eyes – which can see up to 360 degrees! No sneaking up on a dragonfly! Here Emma is trying to imitate the dragonfly’s expression – I think she came about as close as is possible, as a human!
The kids really enjoy all the different dragonflies, and this one was tamer than the rest for some reason. Emma tried to feed him some grass, but he wasn’t interested.
I explained to her that that is okay, because dragonflies eat mosquitoes!
Do you have dragonflies in your yard this summer?
MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.
Nice pictures! I like Emma’s imitation of the dragon fly!
I loved that she was trying to get her face to look like the dragonfly’s!
Ha! Maybe she was trying to turn it into a vegetarian.
Thanks for the mention. We have been seen lots more this summer too. I saw some this weekend but didnt get great shots like you here. Wow, amazing!
lol! I was thrilled with how these pictures turned out.
What a fabulous bunch of photos! We were on vacation in Maine last week and it seemed like there were zillions of dragonflies, but here in the city (Manchester) not so much!
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Thanks for dropping by! We have had more dragonflies this year than ever before, and we are really enjoying them.
They need more water than our yard usually has. But I do love dragonflies.
This is the first year we have had many, and it has been an exceptionally rainy summer. They are a lot of fun to watch!
Haven’t seen any this summer, yet, but I love to see them. I like the poem by Eleanor Farjeon: “When the heat of the summer /Made drowsy the land,/ A dragonfly came/ and sat on my hand . . .”
I will have to show that poem to my poetry-loving and dragonfly-loving seven-year-old!
No we don’t have dragonflies but, we certainly can use them as we have lots of mosquitoes. I am always googling for more ways to get rid of mosquitoes maybe I should just import some dragonflies
You know, I never see dragon flies in our yard. I usually see them by the water.
I think they are awkward creatures. So skinny.
They do look pretty funny with their skinny bodies and huge heads!
We don’t have them in our yard but there are huge ones at Newton North High School’s grass fields I noticed. They are hard to photograph too! I like your photos! I did not know they eat mosquitoes!!
They are very tricky to photograph! I was thrilled to get these pics :)
Lovely! We are also dragonfly fans and have had tons around.
Beautiful shots! Especially Emma eye-to-eye with the dragonfly! :) My kids are very fond of any creatures that eat mosquitos.
Thank you! I agree with your kids – anything that east mosquitoes is my friend!
Adorable! I haven’t seen those for a long LONG time.
Beautiful pictures. I hope your kids enjoy butterflies while they can, because they are not common here unless you are at a lake.
We are going to miss all of the nature we enjoy here.
What a great close up shot of the dragonfly! So great your kids got to see it so close, too.
Thanks! I was thrilled to get that close up pic :)