Dragonflies at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
/The lotuses are blooming profusely at the Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens in Washington DC; I’ll post about them later this week. The dragonflies are the focus for today. There were so many of them when we were walking around the ponds yesterday that I managed to capture quite a few images. They like to perch on dried seed pods,
Folded lotus leaves and
The tips of lotus buds.
The sun reflects off their wings giving them a metallic gleam.
Sometimes their color is jewel like: powder blue, deep green, black veined gossamer.
Sometimes their thorax looks muscle bound
And sometimes it looks it has sub-segments.
This one has droopy wings.
This last picture is my favorite - the color of the uncurling lotus and the dragonfly perching for a few seconds before flying out again over the water.