Here's a link to the Dragonflies section at Troy's Photo Gallery
http://troyb.com/photo/gallery/section25.htm -- you might want to check
out the Flame Skimmer photo.

I like the photos on this website a lot; in fact, I'm even on the mailing
list to be notified when he updates the website.

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC

"bobkiely" wrote in message
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While I was out looking at my greening lily leaves, one of my favorite
creatures came flying by and landed on the cattail fronds. This is a
magnificent specimen as his body is about 1/2" wide and about 3" long and
is
the brightest organgish-red you can imagine. He looks like he just came
from
the paint shop and somebody has been waxing him for hours.

I've been looking for a photograph of him or his species for a 1/2 hour on
the www and nothing I found comes close to the color of this guy.

The other day when I was out there, he was there and a smaller miniature
version of him was there also...this one was a brilliant indigo blue.

One of the reasons I went to the internet before was to see if I could
find
any data on the life cycle of dragon flies as I know this will sound
stupid
but there was an exact replica of this guy who frequented my pond last
year.
Couldn't be the same one could it? Remember, I'm in southern California -
no
freezing allowed here. (At least at my elevation.)