Dragon Fruit?

[mbarker]

We've had a couple days of rain and drizzle, along with dropping temperatures and the beginning of fall allergy season. Enough to dampen anyone's spirits.

But yesterday afternoon the skies cleared and the sun came out, a nice fall afternoon. Crisp but with some real warmth in the sunshine.

And then on my away home, walking in the parking lot, I happened to see them. At the tops of the trees there are some bare branches sticking up, with twigs reaching up to the blue sky above. And perched on several of those twigs were small dragonflies, their four wings shimmering, bodies like black twigs bent sideways on the tips of the branches against the blue fall sky. And as I watched, one or two would drift up, then perhaps float back down to the same twig, or shift to another perch.

Looking carefully as I passed more trees, I found that most of them were graced with a few small flyers, resting in the late afternoon sunbeams, perhaps dreaming of hot summer days gone by. A flotilla of dragonflies nesting at the very tops of the trees in our parking lot. A strange harvest for our ragged trees to bear, here in the fall after days of rain, but a welcome sight for me. A relief to damp spirits to watch those little flyers stretch and dance above the tips of the trees.

Dragonfruit trees! To combat the fall drearies.

Comments

[dialyn.livejournal.com]

What a lovely image. Dragonfly trees. Thank you.