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Here are a gazillion pictures from our family trip to Alaska last month. These are the highlights from my camera. Soon I'll post pictures from Jared's camera, which takes higher quality photos. So check back to see even bigger, better and more awe inspiring pictures! Facebook friends, for some reason I have trouble uploading pictures to facebook. The pictures are always tiny! So, these images are more appropriately sized. Enjoy!

That's what this damselfly's name means, I think. This is a male Calopteryx maculata, also known as Ebony Jewelwing. 

Yesterday we were walking in the forest preserve and there were like, a gazillion weird looking dragonflies. Like this big guy.

We'd never seen a dragonfly like this one before, but apparently it is pretty common, because it is called a common whitetail. But I like to call him by his cute scientific name, libellula lydia. 


We also found these petite little dragonflies.