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Garden Pic Wednesday: Dragonfly on Basil!

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Today's Garden Pic:  A Dragonfly on a Basil bloom! I just snapped this shot today, a few minutes ago.  I was just looking out the sliding glass door at the Hummingbird feeder, where a Hummingbird was sitting, when this large Dragonfly swooped in and landed on this  Basil flower that's in a container on my patio. I ran for my camera.

Garden Pic Wednesday: Dragonflies & Sunflowers!

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September is Dragonfly season in North Florida! They're flying about everywhere! Good news is they're predators to other flying insects, like mosquitoes so you want them around! A Dragonfly Close-Up This fellow happen to perch on an onion blade in a container garden on the patio just outside my sliding glass door, a few feet away. I caught this shot right through the glass, which is amazing since the glass wasn't crystal clean or anything. This is a young male Slaty Skimmer.   Here's a couple photos from the wedding we attended in New Jersey in August: It was an outdoor wedding and Sunflowers were the bride's flower of choice. She purchased them from local farms and arranged simple stems of one or two in glass vases everywhere. She also picked seasonal road side wild flowers to put in other vases. Very rustic. Probably the most creative, colorful wedding flowers I've ever seen used! The Bride and Groom: Chris & Kayla Chris is a...