What a beautiful dragonfly.  He cooperated by letting me get right below him and shoot toward the sky.  This is a Twelve-spotted Skimmer (male).  Just in the last year we have become interested in dragonflies and have found a whole new world!  We have posted pictures of the dragonflies we have seen in the last two months in Southeastern Minnesota.  We had no idea they were so beautiful and so varied.  What we took for granted for years, has become a revelation.