Rainy day cardinal

The rain—bless you, precipitation deities—came down in buckets today, and I was mostly confined to quarters on indoor projects. But when the downpours tapered off to mist in the afternoon, I grabbed my weatherproof little Fuji and headed to the millpond to see if the cloudbursts had perked up the waterfall. It was slightly more energetic, but I think, given how low the water-table has dropped, we're going to need a week of steady rain to make up the deficit in the rain stats. That said, the moisture has done wonders for the flowers and even though this Cardinal Flower has appeared in this blog recently, I saw in in a new light at the edge of the millpond, and I liked the result so much I decided to offer it as a kind of cardinal redux. Would that rainy-day hummingbirds had appeared, so I guess I'll have to be content with the rainy-day spider in the background just behind the lowest blossom.