The red winged one looks like a dragon fly or a damselfly, perhaps? The red wings with the white tips are very beautiful, crying out "look at me".I see dragon- and damselflys in different colours in my garden but not this one. The little brown butterfly looks so humble on the hibiscus leave, and still has a lovely pattern on its wings. Great, to observe all sorts of visitors to the garden.
Cindee/Trudi, Every winged creature flit about in the mornings like there's no tomorrow. But late afternoons, they r..e..s..t-- on their chosen leaf, twig, or a clothesline that's just been emptied of a load of laundry. I think the red one is a dragonfly.I looked up and found out that dragonflies have their "iridiscent wings outspread at rest" unlike damselflies whose wings are usually closed at rest. Thanks for visiting!
Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. Gerard Manley Hopkins
The first flowering shrub I planted on our land
Every flower is a soul blooming in Nature.-Gerard De Nerval
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself? -Henry David Thoreau
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Cool critters!!!!
The red winged one looks like a dragon fly or a damselfly, perhaps?
The red wings with the white tips are very beautiful, crying out "look at me".I see dragon- and damselflys in different colours in my garden but not this one. The little brown butterfly looks so humble on the hibiscus leave, and still has a lovely pattern on its wings. Great, to observe all sorts of visitors to the garden.
Cindee/Trudi,
Every winged creature flit about in the mornings like there's no tomorrow. But late afternoons, they r..e..s..t-- on their chosen leaf, twig, or a clothesline that's just been emptied of a load of laundry.
I think the red one is a dragonfly.I looked up and found out that dragonflies have their "iridiscent wings outspread at rest" unlike damselflies whose wings are usually closed at rest. Thanks for visiting!
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