I luckily caught a glimpse of this beautiful blue dragonfly on my last rock climbing trip in Squamish, BC. If you’ve seen a dragonfly in action, it speedily buzzes past, stops to hover a bit, and continues darting here and there. When it finds a place to land, it slowly and gracefully flaps its four wings up and down, but as soon as you get near it’s gone off into the air.
![Dragonfly in arms reach. Photo by Maki Sumitani.](https://blogs.ubc.ca/sumi/files/2014/10/IMG_0361-コピー.jpg)
The way a dragonfly flies actually gave it a symbolic significance in Japanese culture. During my time training in Continue reading