Just A Cool Image

The *recent visits to The Needle prompted me to go back one more time and take this very different shot of it a couple of days ago.

I Went Back

to the Needle today, to see if the dragonfly would be there again.  And yes! it was there again (at least I think it was the same one), and not only that, it had brought a couple of its fellows.  I wonder what's there at the tip of the needle to attract dragonfly-kind.

Dragonfly On A Needle

Today I went to see the "needle" (actually an iconic sculpture symbolic of the future of Goyang, the Seoul suburb I live in;  I've posted it before).  I took a shot,

then I noticed something -- something at the very tip of the monument that looked like a tassel or a bit of fuzz or anyway some piece of shmutz that wasn't supposed to be there.  I looked hard, but it was so small and indistinct (presbyopia setting in, sigh...) and I was unable to make it out against the backdrop of the bright sky.  Then I got the bright (ha!) idea to check it out with the phone camera at maximum zoom, and...

it was a dragonfly!

I took a couple more shots, then I went over to sit on a bench in the shade and take a break while I checked out the day's photos.  After several minutes I went back to the monument to see if the dragonfly was still there, but it had gone away.  Ah well, I thought.  Then, just as I was about to turn back, I saw it coming back,

to take up its commanding post at the tip of the needle again!

Errant Needle

Not in a haystack (thankfully).

[I've purposely avoided pointing out the needle in the first photo, but if you expand the image and squint, you'll see it^]

There seems to be an interesting connection here with my post from two days ago.  It was a random shot I found in an old folder, of a helium balloon somebody accidentally (presumably) let go.  Then, today I come across a needle, as if I were being (pun warning) needled to puncture it.  Coincidence?

To paraphrase a line by Damon Knight in his book Charles Fort:  Prophet of the Unexplained, if there is a Universal Mind, and it is indeed all-knowing, that still need not mean it must be sane or even particularly intelligent.  Months of drought, then a sudden downpour that produces floods -- is it in answer to prayers for relief?  If there is a Universal mind, it need not be anything but the mind of a newborn idiot.  Or in this case, perhaps a prop comedian.

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