Well, OK, it isn’t a circle, but how do you describe the shape dragonflies make when they are, shall we say, doin’ it? I’m not really up on the whole procedure, because the sex life of anyone or anything but my own is not something I really read up on or talk about. So I don’t know how those little red eggs ended up on the green one’s belly, even if I’d hazard a guess on which one put them there. Both of them look like they’re smiling, so I hope they have both had a good time, and I hope that among the many photos of dragonflies I took the next year, some of them might have been their kids.

August 2, 2014. Nikon D7100 (DX sensor), 70–300mm Nikon zoom lens at 300mm (35mm equivalent: 450mm), f/5.6, 1/1,500, ISO 400.