Jun 112014
 

After rainstorms, I enjoy walking Piney Woods Church Road and photographing droplets of water, clinging like jewels to leaves and stems.  But what I glimpse as a thing of beauty can become a deadly snare to a small insect.  This morning, I glimpsed a small flying insect on a greenbrier leaf.  It had accidentally stepped onto the edge of a large drop of water, breaking the surface tension.  As a result, it was stuck as if to gloue, flailing about like a tragic figure in Shakespeare.  I took several photographs if its valiant efforts to break free.  Then, in an act of Deus ex machina, I intervened, offering a dead leaf as a lifeline, freeing the insect from its watery doom.

 

Trapped!

 

 

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