I was staking out my pond today. Not least because I have tadpoles in there so I was checking them out, making sure I hadn't lost too many in the recent heavy rains. As I sat there contemplating life, the universe and tadpoles, this little guy landed in front of me on the concrete, I attempted to take a shot of him, but he flew away and landed here



I did not notice when I was taking the shots but he only has three and a half wings, his fourth wing is just a little stub. Surprisingly he has no problems getting about, he flew just as any other dragonfly I have seen flies, in fact he moved quite a bit and after flying off my foot he landed on my big toe.



PS) I would apologize for the dirty feet, but you know, we had been doing yard work all morning and flip flops + yard work = dirty feet, and I am not one of those "run in the house every 15 minutes to clean ones feet type of person" you know. So I have dirty feet, sue me :) PS) The dragonfly didn't seem to mind at all. :)