Eyes to Eyes

Ebony Jewelwing

We have had many days of intermittent tropical-like rainstorms. The landscape is steamy with humidity and the plants are oversized…giants of themselves….our little world looks like a Rousseau painting.
Today – in between storms – I chased an Ebony Jewelwing from fern to fern, trying to get it in the right pose for my camera. I slogged through the swamp, water filling up my boots in search of my quarry. Finally, I got a couple of passable shots. For a while we started at each other…eyes to eyes.