My big oak beam that we rescued from The Pantry is now officially a bench in the backyard thanks to 4 new hemlock legs courtesy of Tom and Roberta. I plan on letting the paint weather away for another year or so, and then I will seal the whole thing somehow. Haven't figured that out yet. The next backyard project will be the paver patio that will probably have to wait until next year. The bench will be much happier on a drier, level surface.
While we were all in the back watching Tom put the new legs on the bench, the largest dragonfly I have ever seen found his way onto the screen porch. It took me about 20 minutes to escort him back outside. Dragonflies are big mosquito eaters. We love our dragonflies!
It's hard to get a good photo of a moving target, but I got a close enough look to identify it as a Brown Hawker—about 3" long, brown body, clear wings with a coppery sheen along the edges, and some yellow green stripes on the body. Easy ID when you can just type in "big brown dragonfly" and find the name of your mystery insect. What did we do before Google?
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