RHH's photos with the keyword: raindrop

This was taken in the Jindalba Rainforest near Cape Tribulation. We had a very wet and rainy walk through the rainforest, but did get some photos. I may be late in commenting since I am traveling, but will catch everyone up.

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.” Samuel Ullman. Tamron SF AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro

Rhododendron hybrid.

Alchemilla mollis, Lady's mantle, photographed on a morning walk. --- The common name, Lady's Mantle (in its German form, Frauenmantle), was first bestowed on it by the sixteenth-century botanist, Jerome Bock, always known by the Latinized version of his name: Tragus. It appears under this name in his famous History of Plants, published in 1532, and Linnaeus adopted it. In the Middle Ages, this plant had been associated, like so many flowers, with the Virgin Mary (hence it is Lady's Mantle, not Ladies' Mantle), the lobes of the leaves being supposed to resemble the scalloped edges of a mantle. In mediaeval Latin we also find it called Leontopodium (lion's foot), probably from its spreading root-leaves, and this has become in modern French, Pied-de-lion. We occasionally find the same idea expressed in two English local names, 'Lion's foot' and 'Bear's foot.' It has also been called 'Stellaria,' from the radiating character of its lower leaves, but this belongs more properly to quite another group of plants, with star-like blossoms of pure white. ---The generic name Alchemilla is derived from the Arabic word, Alkemelych (alchemy), and was bestowed on it, according to some old writers, because of the wonder-working powers of the plant. Others held that the alchemical virtues lay in the subtle influence the foliage imparted to the dewdrops that lay in its furrowed leaves and in the little cup formed by its joined stipules, these dewdrops constituting part of many mystic potions. www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/l/ladman05.html

This is a hybrid of Cattleya violacea and Cattleytonia Keith Roth. If viewed large the "stardust" can be seen sparkling on the petals of the flower.

Early morning after a night of rain.

Photographed in the local park on one of our afternoon walks. The day before had been rainy and these drops were still caught in the newly developing foliage

Taken on a rainy day. This is a leaf of an ornamental cabbage where the raindrops had formed a larger drop around a fragment of an autumn leaf. I've uploaded more pictures than usual, so please do not feel that you have to view or comment on any or all of them.

One more picture from the Fragrance Lake trail. The ferns were everywhere but we did stop and take a few close-up pictures. What often happens is that my wife stops to take a photo and I start looking around for something to photograph and soon we've stopped for 15 minutes of more and taken photos of all kinds of things. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-wet-walk-...