Like Jewels
It had been raining all night and when
I got up in the morning the plants on the balcony had drops of rain
on them like jewels hanging down.
First I saw them then the phrase "like
jewels" jumped into my mind. Which was a pity because "like
jewels" is almost a clichè and took away from the sight the
actual beauty of it. Almost as if once described with a poetic clichè
… what?
I've said in an other blog post that
saying that a cloud looks like a dog with a ball or a laughing
head destroys and distracts from the real beauty of the cloud.
And so does the phrase "like jewels"
when talking of drops of water, backlit, hanging from the green
leaves. After that five second slip I managed to get back to the joy
of the vision, without thinking of anything else.
The photo does not convey the reality
of what I saw, maybe 5% of it. Real life dynamic human binocular vision is still
better than photos.
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