Yellow Lotus

Yellow Lotus (Nelumbo lutea) buds and leaves, with dragonflies - July, 2013

It's all peace and quiet until you start picking through the details. In the fine details, foreground, there are three airborne dragonflies, two walking stick insects, and the husk of a dragonfly nymph. In the mid-ground, there's a damselfly perched on one of the lotus bud stems, and a large dragonfly on top of a lotus leaf that's about to unfurl.

...and I was just trying to get a photo of the lotus buds. It's a wonder I didn't get trampled.

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