The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s Water Lilies paintings, evoke a dreamy contentment, as if the world is in ...

with some dragonflies able to consume hundreds of the pests a day. They're breathtakingly beautiful, too, inspiring artists from as far back as 1500 B.C. to depict them in carvings, paintings ...