I'm impressed you got a selfie with the dragonfly! I've tried many times to get good photos of these guys but they won't stay still enough to get a good focus, let alone be picked up!
One of the biggest reasons to stop and look at things like these is to marvel and the craftsmanship that went into making them. We sure do take "just bugs" for granted.
We just got to see a cicada emerge for the first time this year - it was a good year for them and our pine trees had cicadas clinging to the bark emerging for about two weeks. We also discovered a cicada warren under an old piece of cement that I was breaking up for a wall. I think we counted 12 cicada dens underneath it with a nymph curled up at the end of each tunnel. Pretty amazing stuff!
FULLY AGREED!
We saw our first cicada emerge last year, and got to see a few more this year. For a while, they were everywhere.