Winged Helper

Yesterday morning, while outside examining the plants along the fence, a tiny dragonfly appeared and hovered near the tomato plant I was looking at.  It was so delicate, and I had never seen a blue and black dragonfly before.  I stayed put and watched it linger around the leaves for a few minutes. Then it flew away and I continued on, watering and weeding the garden.

I completely forgot about that special visitor until this morning, when I spotted this picture while browsing a gardening site!  This is what my dragonfly looked like, though mine had longer black stripes than blue.

Off to investigate the dragonfly's meaning as an animal totem...