Another neat dragonfly pic-Twelve-spotted Skimmer

It took a little bit to get close enough to this Twelve-spotted Skimmer without flushing it in order to get this close-up pic. This is taken with the macro setting on my digital camera at 1X with a slight enlargement by cropping.

This dragonfly was at the wetlands where I have had rails. There were a number of these flying around there so I suspect they are pretty common here.
SeEtta