A Mansion in the Sky

I think we have a mansion in the sky,* a playboy mansion for dragonflies! Mr. Dreamy walked outside and beckoned me to come out and see. There were at least a dozen dragonflies flying willy-nilly above our lawn. At first we figured there must be a lot of little bugs they were feeding on. (Anyplace else but here we would have said mosquitoes, but we only have a few here - and it isn't due to active dragonflies eating all of them.) 

I count six....

I began to realize that some of the bodies looked larger than others,  

almost like one dragonfly was carrying another. 

The Internet tells me that dragonflies will mate in the air, however the pictures I found online look different than what we were observing in our back yard.

Here's what the Internet shows: 

Looks like a tanker fueling a jet mid air (hmmm, I wonder where they got the idea?!)

Most of the pictures showed the dragonflies mating in a stationary position, where they create a beautiful heart shape. Ah, love!

I have had a wonderful experience with nature in my backyard that not everyone has a chance to see, even though I'm not totally sure if our dragonflies were making babies!

*I was a riding director at a Girl Scout Camp in Rhode Island. In those days we would pile the girls into the "bird cage", the bed of a pickup truck enclosed in wire for "safety" and go for field trips. The girls delighted in singing a bawdy song at the top of their voices as we would go through small, neighboring towns. 

Here is the song:

I want a man,

I want a man,

I want a mansion in the sky.

I want a man,

I want a man,

I want a mansion in the sky,

And when that damn, damn, damn, damn damage is done

I'm going to have me a child, child, childish time,

Up in my mansion in the sky,

Hey, mister.

More sketchy stanzas followed.

It was all innocent fun. No one was injured. Everyone laughed. Life was so much simpler then.