Amos Lake floats

Summer at the lake is rapidly drawing to a close—an earlier close than usual because Labor Day occurs at the earliest possible point in the calendar. I hate this because, in truth, I've been working so much this summer that I've had very little time to enjoy the lake. And it's been a weird summer: much cooler than usual, so that when I've gotten up there and forced myself into the water, I've gotten chilled to the bone easily. Maybe I'm just getting old. But today was warm and sunny, so I headed lakeward. I had an agenda. Last week, when I was swimming, I used a boogie board to get out to the floats to try to photograph the large damselflies resting and, sometimes, coupling out there. The system worked, but the odes weren't especially cooperative models and I wasn't able to ID them from the images. This time, I paddled out, insect net in hand, to try to capture some specimens to examine at close range. The damsels were having none of it, and I didn't manage to net a single insect. I'm running out of time. I can only hope for more coordination—and better results and weather—over the long weekend... the last weekend. Sigh.