Showing posts with label Ebony jewelwing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ebony jewelwing. Show all posts

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Macro Monday: Ebony Jewelwing

Calopteryx macula
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A pair of ebony jewelwings is nearby, poised on a broad-leaved overhang of fox grape and silky dogwood, she resting her white-tipped dark wings and he his jet black ones above their burnished-metal bodies . . . fish and damselflies, jewels set in a sunlit run of the brook at midday.
from Following the Water, David M. Carroll
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