I do hope you won't miss the blog entry, yesterday, and you can find it here just in case you did ~~~
Back to the dragons ~~~ of course, they are not real dragons but dragonflies ~ well, just the one who decided to visit the gnarly old tops of the blackcurrant bush before it gets pruned back later this week ~~~ imagine my surprise to find one flitting about as I went on my usual morning check over the Garden and thanking providence that I'd taken my camera with me, for a short nip back to the cottage and I might well have missed the moment ~~~
He {or she} sat there for ages, so I got a few tidy images from different angles, and he {or she} had the good manners to, not only sit still for a few minutes, but to be perfectly angled against the grey sky so I got some good shots from underneath {I stepped down the drive which is slightly lower than the soft fruit patch so I was able to look up at him {or her!} silhouetted against the {thankfully not bright} greyness ~~~ so, without further ado, here are the photographs I took this morning ~~~ oh, and don't forget to take a peek at yesterday's blog, will you?
All photographs are not edited or cropped, other than resizing for uploading purposes and adding copyright information. The bottom one is a composite, stitched together from two images.











