An old hacked tree with a beautiful new dragonfly. Dragonflies as a species though have been around for about 300 million years! They spend much of their life cycle in water as nymphs (often 2-3 years). As adults, they may only live a couple of months.

The newly opened flower of a Burnet rose, and behind ancient limestone (hundred’s of millions of years old).
Burnet rose
Inspired by this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge#99: Old and New
Lovely examples from nature MM, nicely done.
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Thank you Tina. I was going to hunt through my archives then found these two recent photos and thought I could get them to fit the challenge
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Excellent choices for this theme, MM! Dragonflies have been around about 300 million years, I didn’t know…! Beautiful photos!
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Thank you Amy for an interesting challenge.
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Wonderful choices, MM! The combinations are creative and beautiful, and dragonflies are so cool!
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Thank you, yes I agree dragonflies are cool especially when you think how long they have been around
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Yes – fantastic!
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Love the dragonfly 🙂
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Thank you
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Beautiful contrasts, MM. Lovely as always!
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Thank you so much Pattie
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Great comparisons. Well done.
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Thank you John. Glad you enjoyed them
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Perfect.
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Thank you
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I like the layers of significance in both pictures. And 300 million years for the dragonflies – staggering fact!
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Isn’t it just😊
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