Sometimes intentional walking meets success.
A quick trip to Day Lake (Lake Dimmick) with one purpose in mind: stalking the Clamp-tipped Emerald. Same time, same small canal as last week, same hope of finding something spectacular.
A long time waiting, a long time slowly pacing, a long time looking, and then . . . this happened.
Yes!
when sky is so blue you remember if only a moment that it's only blue for us on Earth and not black and this blue is ultramarine and sun so bright it casts hard shadows all day sparkling water and burning fall leaves and grasses like dry ice, cool and hot colors all at once so creatures slip in and our like beach bathers only in search of heat not a tan, and my camera lens can't determine if there's too much light or not enough, and everything looks beautiful, especially the two Clamp-tipped Emeralds, those big dragonflies I see up close and personal for the very first time:
that's the kind of day it was.
