Fairy Bubbles on Irises

Apparently tiny garden fairies were blowing bubbles in our Siberian Irises last night. They were beautiful this morning: all jeweled with teeny tiny droplets of water from last night's nasty storm.

Melting Flowers

How hot was it yesterday? Apparently  hot enough to melt these tiny pink flowers in one of my front planters. (they really are a pale pink - this was taking early this morning in low light)

Yesterday morning I noticed the first blooms on the plant. Late afternoon I noticed the blooms were gone and thought something had nipped them off. I looked closer and no, they had melted.

The melting created this cool bright purple droplet of water though!

I live in Minnesota. We're not supposed to have melting flowers.

Raindrops on...Everything

After working this weekend, I had this morning off and took advantage of it by bundling up and having coffee on the stoop. It had rained overnight and the air was soft, moist and filled with a pine scent. If I closed my eyes I swear I was sitting lakeside (alas, no such luck).

Once the morning coffee woke me up, I started poking around in the garden only to discover everything was covered in water droplets. That, of course, prompted more action on my part and I dug out the camera.

These small irises (only about 5" tall) are gorgeous.

Water droplets perched on the top of a tiny grape hyacinth plant:

 

The tiny baby sedum and moss growing on one of our garden rocks reminds me of a small succulent garden. Even the little moss tendrils were covered in tiny drops:

But I think my favorite is the perfectly aligned droplets on a blade of grass: