the last of the last stragglers this year.
Today I was out shooting some really dramatic clouds
when this dragonfly swooped into view.
It then landed on the railing not three feet away from me (at the time I was standing on the landing halfway up the stairs to the overpass [visible in the photo] -- that's as high as I dare to go, because in addition to being obsessive-compulsive and possibly mildly autistic, I'm also acrophobic).
I was very glad to see it, and frankly a little amazed, too; summer had long since yielded to fall, and recent days and nights have been rainy and even fairly cold at times. This dragonfly was a genuine surprise. It then flew over to the opposite railing and landed facing me, providing an excellent photo-op. But just then these two high school jock-ish idiots came up, each immersed in his phone, not even looking where they were going, and certainly not noticing the dragonfly. They passed between me and the dragonfly, right next to the railing it was sitting on and of course the dragonfly flew off. I was so so annoyed! I waited a while to see if it would come back, but it never did.
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