The association between lupine leaves and water has always fascinated me. Something on the leaves causes the water to bead up. In younger leaves the water funnels down to the center of the star-burst shaped leaves and collects in the center. There it sits like a giant jewel.
We have been getting one rain shower after another for a week now; several a day. I walked down to the pond yesterday after one of those showers and spotted this large lupine leaf that had been splattered with raindrops. The way the sun was hitting them as I walked by, made the drops sparkle like diamonds. In the photo I took, they don’t look like diamonds, but I like the distinct clarity of the drops sitting on surface of the leaf.
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