Based on sketchbook chronology, I’ve made an educated guess that the baby alligator is my first drawing of 2022. Indisputably, the dragonfly naiad (larva) hunting a tadpole is my last drawing of 2022. A voracious predator with a quick-thrusting extensible lower jaw, the naiad is a real-life xenomorph. As a young woman on my guided walk at my other job as an Everglades Ranger put it, “Nature is metal!”
