Wounded

Dragonflies are magnificent creatures (and very human friendly – they like to eat mosquitoes!).    This noble creature, however, was holding on for dear life.  What you can’t see in this photo is that he had been injured in a fight (with a bird?).  Half of one wing was missing and there was a hole in another.  I don’t know if it could still fly – it sat clinging to the dock for a long while.   This photo is cropped to show its magnificence – not its injury.  Sometimes our lives need to be framed in the same way.