I was out a good part of the day today, doing the kind of onerous garden work that nobody wants to see.
I moved a good bit of salvaged fencewood to the far side of the garage, in an attempt to clear out the back of the garage for the composting bins I eventually hope to construct there. I pulled the clippings from the christmas tree and the junipers off the loose pile where I've been tossing everything and put them in a bin to be shredded. I pulled out all the larger pieces of wood and started a pile for my firebowl. In a year I may have the place cleared and the money for the bins. We'll see.
This little fellow came over to see what I was doing.
Mark came out with Hoggle for a walk and I took a break. I've got a half whiskey barrel with a liner in it sitting on the 'patio.' (The patio is the end of the driveway that I have appropriated for my potted plants and sitting areas.) Every garden needs some water.
Another Dragonfly had decided that our little pond was first rate, and was laying her eggs carefully along the tall stalk of a papyrus. This is pretty cool stuff. Nature, right here in my constructed facsimile of nature.
I had a similar visitor last year, a fact I know solely by the evidence of shed skin the larvae left behind as it moved from water to air.
Dragonflies and Damselflies are garden allies, eating mosquitoes and other pest insects. These predators love mosquitoes at all stages of their development, helping to keep the West Nile virus at bay in my yard.
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