Fun with Dead Dragonflies

I was going through my camera's memory card and found some pictures that I took this summer and had forgotten about. I think this dragonfly looks fairly healthy and bright eyed for something that is a corpse.



Anyway, he was a good model, fully cooperative, even fastening himself to shirts when I directed him to do so.

I have a feeling that a live dragonfly would not have been so easy to deal with.

I do plan on coming back with some art later on today. The challenge for the weekend drawing event is to work large, so I may do a large painting. We'll see... For now, I will just say that I am very happy that my heat has finally been turned on. It was getting a bit chilly in here.

Edited to add, in other news, my neighbor (a male person) has been coughing for about a week. Judging by the nature of the coughs (very loud and dramatic), he either has the swine flu or is just suffering from the male "I'm so sick" syndrome.

Oh, one more thing... I did also want to say that if anyone sent me e-mail a couple of days ago, my inbox was full. So, if you sent me anything, I'm not ignoring it, I just didn't get it. I actually even had an address verification message on my library card because the library tried to send me an e-mail that my book was in when my box was full. I found that amusing.