Cherry-faced Meadowhawk

First, an admission, lol - I very quickly "fixed" the forewing on the right, to fill in a missing area. Just don't have time to try and do a better job of it, but at least it now annoys me less : ) Two of us took forever to try and get our cameras to focus on this Dragonfly - the mass of grass behind it stopped both of our cameras from getting anything more than a complete blur where the Dragonfly was sitting. Eventually managed a few shots that were sharp - and then I discovered at home that this male had part of a wing missing, ha. Photographed at the end of our day of botanizing north of Calgary, at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre. Thank you so much, Carol and Judy, for allowing us to botanize an area where the public is not allowed to go - we feel very privileged and appreciate it greatly. Judy, thanks so much for coming with us for the day and showing us all sorts of neat things. I hope the baby Catbird was eventually united with another Catbird family : )

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Yay, I am finally working on the pages of the list of sentimental items (left to me by my parents and very recently, my brother) that are on their way from England to Canada. I have to type in a value for each of the 400+ items. I can see I will have to do a lot of juggling of amounts to fit the final total that has already been declared. Most of the items have no value at all, except for sentimental value. I am expecting to be contacted by Customs before too long, so I have no choice but to get this list done and gather together all the other forms and papers that I will need to take to their office. Anyone would think I'm trying to smuggle illegal "stuff" into the country, ha, ha!