Once again, luck was with me... really with me. A flash of sunlight on fairly big wings drew my eyes towards a cruising dragonfly patrolling the area around the vegetable garden, and when it decided to take a recharge rest in the shadows, I could see exactly where it had landed: head up, tail down, perching vertically on a Witch Hazel branch. The posture, in addition to the fact that it had big eyes which met together to form a large seam, told me that it was a Darner-type ode—technically, a member of the odonate family Aeshnidae. It certainly would have made a fine photograph, but I, of course, did not have my camera with me. However, in a spell of supreme optimism—hey... you never know—I raced inside to get the gear, and, when I returned to the spot where it had been napping, there it still was, continuing to recharge. I focused and snapped away, alternating between a series of natural light shots and a series that used the camera's on-board flash. I tried to shoot it from every angle, since I didn't immediately know its identity, and I figured that my over-shoot strategy would help me with an ID. Good call: it turned out to be a fairly rare Spatterdock Darner. Too bad you can't see its intense blue eyes and blue body markings.