The photographs in this post were taken a couple of years ago ...
... in the summer of 2019 ...
... during my usual walks along the paths and roads in the bay of Liznjan.
Most of these shots were taken in the morning ...
... after the rainy night.
Most, but not all. Some were taken in the evening and late afternoon of another, more typical, rainless summer day. A friend was also there with me ...
... so she'll appear like a ghost from time to time in the post.
Here you can see a ladybug surrounded by droplets.
I photographed many droplets on the leaves of reeds ...
... and those droplets are now the main characters of this summer memory.
Here you can see a bushcricket among the pearls. A young nymph of the Modestana modesta bushcricket.
Here you can see a considerably bigger nymph of the same species, but on a different kind of leaf and with no droplets around.
This is the Schmidt's Marbled Bushcricket. An adult.
Here you can see another group of droplets, while in the following photograph ...
... you can take a better, more up-close look at the same thing.
In this enlargeable photograph, you can see the young, wingless nymph of the Conocephalus discolor bushcricket.
Here you can see my friend again. She was also photographing around. But not on the same droplet-rich morning. This is an evening shot.
I photographed so many droplets ...
... because they weren't all the same.
I noticed a nice variety among those pearls of water.
Here you can see another ladybug.
I saw quite a few Coccinella septempunctata ladybugs on that occasion.
In some places, the rain has left muddy puddles on the road and under the reeds.
This snail has drowned in a puddle. Terrestrial snails like the water and need plenty of humidity, but if the water is deep enough, they can also die in it.
The tendril in this photograph was photographed in the late afternoon.
These are all tendrils of some climbing plant that I wasn't able to identify.
Here you can see the fruits of the same plant.
In this photograph, the tendril is blurred in the foreground and the focus is on its shadow.
Here you can see another beetle that I photographed in the morning. The Amphimallon solstitiale, and in the following picture made of four photographs...
... you can see a very similar and closely related Amphimallon ruficorne ready to fly away.
Here you can take another look at my friend in the evening.
Some droplets were photographed very early in the morning ...
... and in those little spheres, I saw the reflected reeds that looked like things trapped inside a crystal ball.
I took only three shots ...
... before the sun that was rapidly getting higher and stronger ...
... changed the droplets ...
... and the entire scenery.
Here you can see another apparition of a friend of mine.
Here you can see more droplets ...
... and another young Modestana modesta bushcricket.
And that's practically it ...
... I have only two more photographs to show.
Here you can see the Neoscona adianta spider on the web built between the leaves high on the top of the reeds.
AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.
