I think it’s been five days now that it’s been raining here. That’s not necessarily a bad thing since the ground had become fairly dry and the inlets to the pond had not even a trickle of water. The juvenile red-winged blackbird (above) seems to wonder into what sort of world he’s landed as the water falls in sheets.
On the pond’s surface, in the photos above and below, you can see the intensity of the rain. I wasn’t yet a quarter of the way around the pond when I could feel that the rain had soaked through my sneakers and socks!
In the photo of the pond’s surface above, on the left-hand side of the image, nearly at the mid-line, you can see a water droplet suspended above rings of a splash. I don’t know if the camera caught a falling raindrop, or if the droplet resulted after a drop of rain hit the water. To the upper right of the droplet, you can see a water bubble. I’ve cropped the image below to help you see both. There’s a macro and a micro world always in action at the pond. And, all things being relative, numerous layers within each, and between each.
I don’t know what filament on the back side of these leaves holds the raindrops in place. But its composition seems to like holding the drops along the main vein.
It’s been an odd spring this year and the summer’s off to an equally unseasonable start. It’s been colder than other years, especially the nights. I’m hoping soon we’ll be rewarded for this with bright, warm, and dry days.
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