Another day of bees and sunshine in the garden today. Nearly identical to a previous photo of a bee on the Baystate Angel dahlias, but still one of my favorite subjects to photograph:
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I'd never seen a red dragonfly before Thursday when I wandered outside during a break in the punishing rainstorms to find this on a bean leaf:
Highly likely that this will be a calendar shot (it's a different bean leaf):
I had a really hard time narrowing down the 50+ in focus shots to these three:
So you have an idea of the scale...note the dragonfly on the leaf a little more than half way down:
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I have been showing you a lot of veggies lately, but I've got plenty of flowers (thankfully attracting pollinators). I'm not sure why I haven't written any GTS posts so far this summer, but that's easily remedied. I have two dahlias from Dave the dahlia guy that are blooming and I happen to have taken photos of both of them with my thumb for scale.
This one's labeled Parkland Glow:
Bay State Angel:
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