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.