Blue Dasher

Dragonflies do not usually let me get close enough with just a 60mm lens, but this one did.
At a family reunion in southeastern Michigan. (Yesterday’s “no-post” was a 500-mile travel day.)
» ID’ed as Pachydiplax longipennis or “Blue Dasher” at BugGuide
» Species page at BugGuide

Looking back
  1 year ago: No post (Probably a travel day — that time of the year!)
 2 years ago: “Reflections [Filler]”
 3 years ago: “Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (dark form female)”
 4 years ago: “A different corner of the lake”
 5 years ago: “Infrastructure”
 6 years ago: “Sulphur”
 7 years ago: “Painting the living room…”
 8 years ago: “Crinum Lily”
 9 years ago: “I swear I am not making up this name!”
10 years ago: “Painted Lady”
11 years ago: “Mystery shot?”

[ IMG_3309S100x75Atm :: 60mm ]

[Mags]

Great closeup!

[Jane Pittenger]

Nice sharp capture. They are still out in Michigan in December!?

[Thom Mitchell]

@jgpittenger No … this was a long-after-the-fact post for July.
For various reasons, I have a January-to-July void I am working on filling ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Grandchild #3 was born in June and I haven’t done that period when we went to assist.)