My Jungmeister isn’t quite as big…
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Snapped this flying machine in our garden this morning.
Interesting FACTS: Apparently, dragonflies have two huge compound eyes (30,000 individual facets - the largest eyes for their body size of all animals) which are designed to look upwards. The eyes are so large that they take up most of the head, and 80% of the brain deals with visual information.
I just love the complex veins in the wings. This is a clue to their ancient lineage. They were flying around almost in their present form 250 million years ago, in the Jurassic period – NOT that I was there at the time!
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Hiya!
Fantastic detail of a great specimen 
great picture of nature at its best!
Barrie
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This is Elterwater in the Lake District a fortnight ago, when we had that amazing weather. I was swimming in there shortly after taking the picture 
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Great photo! Love the Lake District, off there for a second week this year at the end of next week. Stopping in a house overlooking Lake Grasmere, can’t wait 
We had a fabulous time when we were there, picnic on the bank of Windermere on Friday, stayed over night in Grasmere, then did Elterwater on the Saturday and finished in Ambleside for an evening meal before heading home at 9pm.
Weather was amazing and the Lake District was stunning.
Had a go of paddle boarding too……… The only thing that wasn’t quite right was that I didn’t go in my MX5 
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When the sun is shining, I think the Lake District is one of the nicest places to visit in the UK. When it’s raining and cloudy, it’s a massive disappointment (as you can’t appreciate the amazing landscapes). If only you could guarantee the weather when you book 
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Ahh, that’s the thing, isn’t it ? Scotland suffers from the same issue - great scenery, but (more often than not) rubbish weather ! Great shame.
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Yup.
Conversely, it’s our changeable weather that both created it ( post Ice Age) and now preserves our scenery, like so many UK other “playgrounds”.
Which, if lucky, you can ski without leaving the UK for starters.
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I once went to Wales and it didn’t rain - ALL DAY! amazing…
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That’s just a big fib.
Huge.
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I was shocked too, but it really was true. I am sure there is some record in the newspapers or something…as these things happen so rarely!
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We had not experienced “proper” rain in the FK1 post codes for many weeks till yon flash storms a couple of days back…SWMBO insisted we set the sprinklers up last week.
The soils ( we have a lot of expensive shrubs etc) just soaked it like a sponge…it took around 5 hours before what I considered proper saturation to happen. Probably a couple thousand gallons…easy.
I know myself, the traditional weather patterns old sayings are made of are really gone now.
We have plants flowering when they ought not, and stuff shedding the season’s leaves when they ought not.
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Took this last weekend in Cheshire - mine is the ND, but I did have a very similar NA which I got rid of when I got the ND…no idea who it belongs to.
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Are they for “wind in the hair motoring?” - blow your head off!!! 
Classy photo
Yes indeed, very nice photo
Barrie
