The dragonfly’s surroundings show through its transparent wings.
Barb Kristen
The sun sets over the Main Injector ponds.
An opossum sniffs its way around the BEG building.
Another butterfly, the Common Buckeye, settles on the pavement.
A Great Spangled Fritillary alights on a flower near Pine Street.
An egret walks away from two great blue herons at A.E. Sea.
These yellow flowers, which can be seen off Pine Street, are compass plants, so named because their basal leaves orient themselves in a north-to-south direction to avoid the direct rays of the midday sun.
A purple flower known as a hairy vetch attracts a bumblebee in the prairie between the eastbound and westbound Pine Street lanes.
Barn swallows, not yet fledged, chirp as they sit comfortably in their nest at BEG.
It checked itself out in the windows of the building. What a fetching fowl! Photo: Barb Kristen, PPD