Rain drops (1)

I think rain drops are overlooked most of the time.  We don't pay much attention to their beauty.   We are often too occupied not to get wet, I guess.  They are just drops of water but if you start to observe them closely, I'm sure you will start to see the marvels of nature. Rain drops come in a variety of shapes, through which light is reflected beautifully.

Rain drops (2)

Rain drops are transparent and beautiful like crystals.  The difference is that they take many shapes, reflect everything around them.  They also encapsulate everything within. 

Rain drops (3)

We tend to stay inside on rainy days and give up on nature watching all together.  But there is something beautiful that we can never see on sunny days.  To me, rain drops are the gifts of such seemingly gloomy wet days.

Spectacled Skylark

Oh, dear. I didn't know you wore spectacles.

Skylark

While this bird perched on this signpost, her head was flat like the photo most of the time.  Male Skylarks have their crests up all the time.  Behaviorally, this individual is more likely to be a female.  Males rarely perch near the ground in the breeding season.  They are up in the air singing frantically!

Skylarks (Alauda avensis) came back to their breeding ground.

Hello, Skylark! I'm so glad to see you again in the meadow.  This individual seemed to be a female, because she did not raised the crest often.  Most of the time, her head was flat.

Snowshoe tracks

I guess I should conclude the snowshoe track story....(I know it's mid-May already).  The snowshoe footprints I was following continued for some distance, maybe about 200 to 300 meters.  Finally, I realized that the track was running along the power lines, sidestepping at times to circle round the towers along the way.  The track must have been that of one of the maintenance people of the electric company.  I wonder how often they have to climb mountains to check power lines and towers in the midth of the severest of winter.  It should really be a hard work.  We ought to be thankful and pay respect to those dedicated people for the maintenance of our power supply.

They seemed to have to walk strictly along the power lines.

Encountering the wildlife such as Grizzlies, wasps, or poisonous plants may be their challenges in the other seasons.