Accessing ggplot's inherited data object from a layer

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oh, awesome! Thanks for all the responses everyone. @knm hit it on the head when she suggested ggplot(mpg, aes(x=hwy,y=displ,label=model))+geom_point()+geom_text(data=function(x){filter(x,hwy>40)}), and @nick made it look nicer by using ..

To enumerate, I've been doing something like the following, where I create an intermediate tmp dataframe:

tmp <- mpg %>%
    filter(<something>)
tmp %>%
    ggplot(aes(x=hwy, y=displ, label=model)) + 
    geom_point() +
    geom_text(tmp >% filter(hwy > 40))

But wanted to see if I could be super lazy and do it all in a single string of pipes. So this would totally work:

mpg %>%
    filter(<something>) %>%
    ggplot(aes(x=hwy, y=displ, label=model)) + 
    geom_point() +
    geom_text(data = . %>% filter(hwy > 40))

@nick -- to as a followup, is the . (dot) object standard in R and can I use it to reference inherited functions in other objects? Or it that something tidyverse specific?

Thanks again!