I am a PLUVIOPHILE, someone who loves rain, finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days. Our official rainy season started in June, so you bet, i am at my best these days.
I find raindrops on taro leaves very artistic and exceptional,
I find this basin-full of rain so lovely with the abstract patterns as rains fall
I find even this wet tube so nice with that bokeh background
I find the ground puddles welcoming of diverse organisms, expressing joy itself
....the weeds so joyous swaying their leaves and flower with the wind
....the complex growth of colors in one side of mother's biodiversity garden
....the growth of mosses luxuriantly embracing the otherwise bare vertical ground wall
....the young leaves so attractive distinctly showing their colorful innocense
....the butterflies suddenly metamorphosed to adults cued in finding new food
....the butterflies freely roam again among new nectar plants
....even the birds twitter more happily, preening themselves more freely now
.... the dormant hippeastrum ressurected to blooms again
....the dormant caladiums can display their fancy color displays again
.... and my morning views upon opening my eyes most mornings are more dramatic with the clouds!
A pluviophile enjoys all these, finds joy in everything brought by the rain, and the above photos are just within the vicinity or our house and just around the garden. If i move my camera beyond my space, there will be more, and that will be for maybe the future posts.
I hope you found some information about my world, and myself, your blogger friend.
Beautiful flowes and ´wet´pictures. I like the word pluviophile. I love rain in its time, but I´m not a pluviophile, I´m afraid we had too much rain and less sun in the past few months.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice week and enjoy the rain!
Hi Judy, i've just learned the word, so i am trying to use it immediately so i wont forget it, haha. I remember that it was almost always grey in Europe during my few visits there, i can't imagine where the sun was!
DeleteI love the rain drops on that leaf - very beautiful; your tropical beauty is so different from where I live. In our area, the steps on that mountain trail on my blog are more for erosion control on a popular in-town trail than for safety; it's steeper than the photo looks, and with the loose soil (it's loose rock rather than real soil) and very heavy thunderstorms which are common here in the summer, the trail would not last long without them. The real mountain trails are much less maintained and you can find yourself on a two-foot-wide path with steep drops and cliffs; even this in-city trail has a five-hundred-foot (150-meter) cliff with no rails at one point.
ReplyDeleteI still get envious at the maintenance in rich countries like yours. Oh well i might not be able to see the days when we will be like that. Thanks for your visiting here often.
DeleteA great series of photos. The flowers are very beautiful and also the butterflies. I especially like the rain on the taro leaf.
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming over Mick, i hope you drop by again as lots of them will be coming in my future posts.
DeleteYou do make the rain look attractive. I am not a big fan of the rain and luckily I live in a dry part of NZ The flower and butterfly photos are beautiful as well and the sunset is stunning
ReplyDeleteHi Marja, you are living in a colder climate, so even if it is dry you might be feeling well. You will notice the difference if you are in a dry and hot climate like where i am. NZ is my favorite country. Thanks for the visit.
DeleteThe rain is energizing to all species.
ReplyDeleteMaybe not only species but inanimate objects too.
DeleteI quite agree with you, I am a fellow pluviophile, love the rain. Just adding you to my blog links as I really like your photos :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming over and your kind words. It is also delightful seeing your posts about NZ.
DeleteThanks for this interesting post......and what a fabulous sunrise!
ReplyDeleteOh yes sunrise and sunsets are our perfect nature assets here in the country! thanks for your visit.
DeleteHello, I must say your love of the rain spills out in this post. Beautiful images of the raindrops, flowers and plants. Have a happy day and week ahead!
ReplyDeleteHaha Eileen, i love how you said it, my love of the rain spills out in this post. I am glad i did this post, as many of you were delighted too. Thanks as always.
DeleteOnly those who have known drought know the value of rain I think.
ReplyDeleteNice post.
Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne
That is true Stewart, those of us who have known drought value rain much.
DeleteFabulous shots! I love rain too.
ReplyDeleteYour shots are always inspiring! I love seeing all of them.
DeleteOh my gosh ... your rainy season! Wow! Those butterfly photos ... and the Caladiums. Gorgeous. My husband is a pluviophile, too. I like the rain if it doesn't last too long, but I'm more of a sun-lover. This is a beautiful post!
ReplyDeleteYou are very kind Beth. Sometimes i even go out of the rain and even while others get sad with it, i am their opposite, delighted with wet feet and legs. But of course our floods bring different emotions as well.
DeleteYour wet season is beautiful Andrea ... And thank you for the new word "pluviophile". I am not one, got real tired of gray rainy days here in the Northwest corner of the US... But your rainy season doesn't look that dreary!
ReplyDeleteI can understand your love of the rain, when I have read about the hot dry season there! Your plants all look so healthy and happy to see the rain too! Living in Scotland, I am not so fond of the rain as we seem to have it here more days than not!
ReplyDeleteOh a new word for me Andrea and I would love some rain as we are in severe drought here...Lovely photos and yes there is something calming about rain I would agree...Michelle
ReplyDeleteOh! what a poetic writing. It's so beautifully written, expressed with beautiful pictures that's it's very difficult to describe other than saying a great masterpiece. I enjoyed everything. And that's a lovely word to use in scrabble. Can you please send some of your rain to us :-)...
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