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I started the season with a Flame Skimmer followed by a Blue Dasher. I ended the season with a Blue Dasher followed by a Flame Skimmer. But what hakes this one different is that it is the most colorful background I have ever gotten of a Blue without the water or sky as a backdrop.
If you're wondering what the difference is between the Blue Dasher and Western Pondhawk, well the Blue Dasher has a larger yellow marker on the bottom of the thorax, is about a half-inch shorter in length, with wings a third of an inch wider, and a blue that has less black separating the segments than the Pondhawk.
These are the blocks that I was working on collecting orange fabric for. They are 6 inch Churn Dash Blocks.
I can't decide if I want to keep the quilt as Pink, Red, and Orange or also add in the yellow. Any suggestions?
I'm also still thinking about if I want the Orange (and the yellow) to only be the "Churn Dashes" or if I should also use the orange(yellow) as the background too in some blocks. I did two blocks where they were the background. Haven't decided yet!
Bombardier DHC-8-102 Dash 8 s/n 212 (1990) Air Canada Express (Operated by Jazz Air) C-FGRY @ Toronto Pearson International (CYYZ) ON Canada
A pair of Norfolk Southern C39-8s chug into Baltimore with CSX train R402 back in 1992.
After working Locust Point yard, the two NS Dash Eights would head back to the main and head for Philadelphia.
Along the Dash Point Beach, sits this little group of homes on the mountainside. The clouds were all over the place and the morning sun began to show itself. A moody morning water scene worth getting up for.
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A former Santa Fe Dash 9, now an AC44C4M rebuild, leads Q329 west into Grand Rapids after a period of rain showers.
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I went out today looking specifically for a Black Saddlebags Dragonfly in flight. Saw not a one. But there must be 50,000 Blue Dashers and Darners at the lake. Identification was still problematic but ... this is Fred.
This guy is still my best friend.
He's getting on up there in age, but he's still happy and healthy and loved.
A buck decides that two is too crowded in the Madera Open Space, El Cerrito
Briefly in Explore for 01-09-15
And now today the Blue Dashers are out in my area.
Photography of the Day, Dragonfly Gallery, May 11, 2010
Three BNSF C44-9W's sit in the RRVW yard at Breckenridge, MN on a nice spring evening. I keep asking myself if it's time to get excited about H2 Dash 9's. I don't think I'm there quite yet, at least compared to how I feel about standard cab EMD's, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that there is starting to be a little bit of nostalgia about them.
Dash to the store and grab your fave energy drink and candy! Each item includes a left & right hold. Items are sold by color of can and candy option. We also have a solo drink option. 🎉✨
We also have a discounted item (shopper's fave) + free gift at the event!
After a brief respite of two non-dragon/damsel images, we return to a favorite, the male Blue Dasher. Sometimes called a "dragonlet" because of its small size, it's one of the most numerous dragons here. (California only has some 46 species of dragonflies, and I'm still enthralled with them, so bear with me.)
Dashers (sometimes called Chasers in Canada) usually perch with wings extended forward and downward. Skimmers have wings extended out to the sides, and then we get into damsels... Anyway, to get a good shot of the wings, it's best to be above and pointing downward - us, not the dragon.
The season is on the downslope, and will be over in about five weeks. There may be a few male dragonflies patrolling, but they haven't a notion about what happened to the females which have either died of old age (at two weeks to six months) or have fallen prey to herons, flycatchers, fish, frogs (who jump after lying in ambush), and even another dragonfly though that is unusual in adults.
I'll be posting some wildflowers and a few birds that are showing up in between Odonates. The season is short and I have to make the most of these jewels. At the same time, I'd like to further introduce you to my various "swamps" frequented by dragons and arenas (twenty square feet of bubbling, rotting vegetation) by damselflies. So much to see, so little time...
One of many daily Amtrak Hiawatha’s roll out of Milwaukee through the Menominee control point on the way to many repeated trips to and from Chicago. On point are two GE P32-8BWH locomotives.
The blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is common and widely distributed in the United States.[1]
Mature males develop a bluish-white pruinescence on the back of the abdomen and, in western individuals, on the thorax. They display this pruinescence to other males as a threat while defending territories at the edge of the water.[2]
Mature male with blue-white abdomen and thorax
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", the wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison.[1] The blue dasher grows up to 25–43 mm long. Juvenile males will show female coloration before they turn blue. Females are paired with yellow stripes on the dorsal side of the first 8 abdominal segments, the part of the body that lies between the thorax and the pelvis and encloses the stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, and pancreas; more commonly known as the belly. Females are also reported to turn blue, but at a slower rate then the males
Source: Wikipedia