A bit of rain fell today, early in the morning. I walked the short distance from my bed to the garden, intending to eat a couple of figs for breakfast. On the way to the fig tree, I soon noticed two snails on the unnecessary fence that partially encloses the corner of my yard dedicated to tomatoes, papers, and zucchini.
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I photographed the snails, and then I continued with the droplets that gave a bit of refreshing magic to the ordinary stuff in my garden and gave me enough visually attractive material for today's post.
Here you can see a bunch of droplets on the red surface of the ripe tomato that soon will be eaten.
In this photograph, I came even closer to a droplet left by the rain on the green tomato.
These droplets on another red tomato are lit by the morning sunlight in a different, more intense way. The clouds were slowly floating across the sky, covering and uncovering the sun along the way.
On various surfaces, the water forms slightly different droplets.
The droplets shown in this, the previous, and the following two shots, were photographed on the leaves of the Chenopodium album plant.
Chenopodium album grows as a weed here in my garden but it's actually a healthy and tasty edible plant,
I use it as spinach sometimes.
In this wide shot, you can take a look at the dense, intricate mix of planted tomatoes and self-seeding Chenopodium album plants. The droplet, shown in the following photograph ...
... was hanging from one of the green tomatoes and reflecting some lovely details of its surroundings.
Here you can see one of the droplets on the opposite side of the tomato globe.
At one point, while photographing the droplets, I noticed a well-camouflaged insect among the tomatoes.
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This is the wingless nymph of the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys).
Here you can see three droplets that already appeared in one of the shots earlier in the post but I got closer with the macro lens this time so the droplets look considerably bigger.
In this wide shot, you can see how the tomatoes and peppers in my garden look early in the morning. In the following photograph ...
... you can take a look at the droplets on the leaves of the pepper plant.
As the sun was rising, those leaves were getting illuminated in a different way ...
... so I had the opportunity to take quite a few fairly different portraits of the same kind of plant.
At one point, while photographing the droplets on the leaves ...
... I found another stink bug.
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You can see a Nezara viridula nymph in this and the previous photograph. This species is commonly known as the southern green shield bug.
Here you can see more droplets. Always on the same kind of plant - the pepper.
After taking this shot ...
... I photographed an entire green tomato tastefully decorated with delicate pearls made of water.
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The snails were photographed very early in the morning. The atmosphere was still gloomy in my yard.
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In this last wide shot, you can take one last look at the lovely red tomatoes displayed in my garden. The post ends here. As always here on Hive, the photographs are my work.
