Being at a pond in a light summer rain often is not only pleasing to the eye, it can be symphonic to the ear – the fat raindrops hitting different surfaces can sound like harps and plucked violins, the breezes making the cat tails swish, the frogs playing double bass and the red-winged blackbirds playing muted trumpets ….
The performance is made complete after a brief shower, when the sun returns and the water lilies yield themselves fully to it. That’s always a stunning encore.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on July 2 and 5, 2023.)