Female Neurothemis fulvia

By sheer chance I saw an Anglo-child running around in a 7-11 in Chiang Mai that I recognized from a train ride I had taken a few weeks earlier in Chumphon. I waited around outside and saw his hippie (no offense) mother and started talking to her. Her name was literally Nym.

She told me she lived in northern Thailand off of the land with some other people of similar beliefs. She said there were snakes and spiders and bugs and fruit growing wild everywhere. I told her that sounded 'something' awesome and she invited me and some other friends to come.

We sat in the back of a truck carrying supplies to a small village on the ride up. The scenery was amazing and when we got there it was like a paradise (minus a few of the residents and tasks like shoveling human feces for fertilizer).

Maybe I will write a journal on it; it was an extremely worthwhile experience though also very uncomfortable and frustrating.

Anyway...marvelous wings. The male is a crimson-ish color. They also have a cool style of resting their wings sometimes which is shown in the second photo.