Life can be translucent

young female Banded darter dragonfly (Bandheidelibel) in our garden

I'm so sorry for my absence!

Perhaps you remember my mother had a severe operation at the end of March.
(you can read my earlier posts here, here, here and here)

She slowly recovered afterwards but she didn't recover completely.

Now new scans confirm she's terminally ill and she's fighting a lost battle.

Her condition is getting worse and life threatening really quickly.

We'll be spending as much time as we can with her.
So please hang in there with me...

Walk

We visited Lozerheide for a walk...

beautiful demoiselle

Sunday Walk

Green Hawker

This female Green Hawker (aka aeshna viridis) dragonfly was hunting above our field.

It was impossible to photograph this beautiful creature due to it's speed.
Suddenly it landed on the rear side of our house.

Dragonfly

So beautiful this brown dragonfly!

I think it's a female Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum)