A little while back we had a morning where the rain came down steadily for several hours, and then in the afternoon it cleared out and was rather pleasant. I decided to take advantage of the fact that the plants and wildflowers would be covered in raindrops. I didn’t venture out too far in case it started to rain again (I don’t mind being out in the rain, but thunder and lighting are a whole different thing!), but I didn’t really need to. I found quite a few wildflowers on my street, and then I took some photos of the crepe myrtles in my yard. This was my favorite of the shots I took of the crepe myrtles. I liked how the flowers formed a nearly perfect ring and the stems looked like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. I also loved that the stamens were almost exactly in the middle. Often these flower clusters are quite asymmetrical and flowers are missing. The symmetry of this bunch was appealing as it was, but the raindrops made it really magnificent.