We went for a walk around the nearby lake not long after moving into our house. There were lots of mosquitos and, far better, lots of dragonflies. We usually see blue-green dragonflies and these red and black ones were something new. One followed us around for a while (probably taking advantage of our cloud of mosquitos) and then landed on Rob.

Rob with one of last year's pine cones.
There were still some seeds inside.

My co-worker and I found this guy when we were walking back to the office this afternoon. It's hard to tell from the picture but he's about two inches long when he stretches out (those are standard paving stones for scale). He was quite bold, working his way up the middle of a well used path, and sported a bit of a mohawk. I wonder what he turns into?