Freakish weather has the effect of making you observant. And what could be more freakish than two consecutive days of rain in a western state? That happened recently. The next morning large pendulous drops were hanging on plants in a way that didn't seem real.
The photo, bad as it is, still gets the idea across that drops of water held onto plants like Christmas tree ornaments. This kind of thing happens so infrequently I cannot predict it.
But it makes me nostalgic for returning to a real camera instead of a smartphone. For years I used a compact zoom. It really was more fun taking photos back then. And the moisture/water/fog photos turned out rather well:
The photo above was taken near Moab on a chilly, autumn morning. Our bike ride had taken us downhill, into a frost pocket. It was shockingly cold in that hole.
One winter morning, after some generous rain in southern Arizona:
Sometimes even fog is photogenic:
In a western state, there is simply no way you can appreciate H2O molecules too much, be they gas, liquid, or solid. With backlighting from the morning sun, it can affect you like the "ice palace" in the movie, "Dr. Zhivago." I didn't care for the movie that much, but the ice house scenes were magical.
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