Halloween Pennant egglaying

I was on a mission today. First on the list was a trip to the dump to drop off the recyclables and the true trash, which, as per the tenets of good environmental citizenship, is quite small... definitely less volume than the recyclables. After that was done, I took a quick run up Lantern Hill, accompanied, on the ascent, by a young mother and her yearling daughter that I ran into and were walking my way. It was all I could do to keep up with her, and I had to laugh when she told the youngster that she was winded. I certainly saw no sign of it. I came down the hill alone, but I did have a wonderful chance meeting with my friend and sometimes collecting companion Juan. Once down, I drove quickly to Lantern Hill Pond to see if I could finally spot Blue Corporal dragonflies, a population of which I've been monitoring for my friends at UConn and the State—they're a species of Special Concern, and I'm more than a little concerned that I've yet to find them. I did, however, spot the first of this year's Halloween Pennants, an especially beautiful ode whose appearance marks the shift from spring to summer. This female was busy dipping her abdomen in the water to lay her eggs. She's recently out of her larval case and she's wasting no time getting down to business.