Location Taken: Thousand Islands, Ontario, Canada
Time Taken: July 2012
It’s always fun when I’m just randomly looking through my photos and I find something unexpected.
I mean, I’m sure this damselfly was the reason I took the photo, but I don’t recall it specifically, and said insect blends into the background at thumbnail size. I took a series of photos of a bee gathering nectar just a minute or two later, so I suspect that overwhelmed the earlier “awesome bug and flower” photo achievement as well, which usually makes me remember such things.
I do rather like damselflies though. They seem more delicate than the more common dragonfly, with a thinner body and smaller wings. There’s a good chance that’s why they’ve also got a more delicate name, damsel versus dragon. This tends to make them a bit tougher to notice, so it’s all the more special when I find one.
This one’s also sitting on a young curled-up Queen Anne’s Lace flower, which is also rather delicate, with its thin leaves and bracts. You can almost imagine the flower is so delicate it bent from the almost non-existent weight of the damselfly landing on it.
And it was a bit unexpected to find this flower in the first place. It was a wildflower, growing along the edge of a parking lot, one of those inhospitable places we humans seem to like creating. And yet, the flower was growing strong, and the insects were visiting, and the patterns of life continued all around me.
