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Ever seen a dragonfly with a Mercedes Benz trademark on her chest?

I will show you a series of colorful and intricate dragonflies here today with a wonderful surprise at the end of the post!
All warm and sunny photos and several times I have used the sunlight as a tool to help me highlight the colors of these intricate, delicate and speedy fliers.
Without further ado let's go!

Here you can clearly see the Mercedes Benz mark on her chest and what a surprise!
Nature has invented Mercedes Benz long before man did hahaha.

The wind flips her hair (wings) over her head in a lovely color show!

Now for what I call the dragonfly Sun Spa here below!

This is a head of a day lily flower!

The dragonflies come to sit here in the afternoons to bask in the sun!

This guy looks like a developing Navy Dropwing dragonfly!

Here we have a more developed Navy Dropwing and I will also show you what the female looks like!

This visitor to the Spa is a Cape Skimmer guy!

And now for the pleasant surprise that I mentioned in the introduction above!

The yellow ringed item is a broken small egg that I saw a while ago. It ended up in this pot plant below the trees.
And so I waited and kept an eye out every day to see what was inside that egg!

Bang! I got the baby today and it is a small Cape White Eye. We were so happy to see this!

Here's a closer look at the baby and isn't it beautiful?

This is the wife of the Navy Dropwing smiling and wishing you all blessings for the week ahead!

The sun can at times be very troublesome to photographers, but it can also become a great aid.
I have some very colorful shots of dragonflies taken with the late afternoon sun and here below are 2 examples!

Look what happens when you use the sun as an ally!

Finally, really, I promise, but I just had to show you this.

Like a good red wine, my posts are designed to get better towards the end and I think that I can rather say they mature as one reads through them. Similar to our lives from birth to adulthood.
I normally start a post and then as I work through it a flow appears that I just have to follow. Sounds easy, but many times my thoughts and rationalizations try to interrupt the flow.
So, I have learned one thing and that is to simply go with the flow.
Surprise, surprise, it seems to work measured by my ratings.

Not to be dominant, absolute or irritating, but rather to write as my heart leads in respect of all and also in the realization that everyone out there is different. As they say, one can only try and that's what I am doing here on #steemit. If you like my work fine, if you don't like my work, also fine, but know this! I will keep on trying.
To please all is a fallacy, but to please those that are similarly minded is a great pleasure.
You are all special to us at the Papillon charity.

Note:
All photos are my own, unedited and only cropped for uploading purposes.
Dragonfly specie names are taken from my book titled;
"Dragonflies & Damselflies of South Africa" Authors; "Warwick & Michele Tarboton".

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