It was raining a bit early in the morning. I heard it in my dream. I was on some distant planet, a desert planet with blue and violet soil and three red suns above it, and it started to rain. It was the first rain ever, in that place, the voice in my head said. At eight o'clock, when the stores were opening ...

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 ... I went to buy a few things.

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The streets were humid and the sky just slightly cloudy. Some athletic tourists were jogging downhill to the sea ...

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... and the waiter in the nearby restaurant just parked his bicycle before entering the workplace.

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I passed by one of the many small stores filled with typical summer stuff ...

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 ... and arrived to the bakery, where I bought the bread and donuts ... and took this shot. On the way back home, I didn't take any photographs, so the first short walk has to end here.

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After eating some stuff from the bakery mentioned in the first chapter of this post, I drove to the coastal meadows to see what's going on there after the rain. While walking along the road that leads to the sea, I noticed some colorful little things on the wild carrot's flower.

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These are the Graphosoma italicum shield bugs.

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You can often see them mating in small groups on these large composite flowers.

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The striped bugs are a very decorative addition to the wild carrot.

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After this, more up close shot, I continued walking.

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The next stop was by the Chenopodium album plant.

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The surrounding vegetation was mostly dry ...

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... but on the hydro repellent surface of these leaves, the water created relatively big droplets ...

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... that still persisted in the cloudy weather.

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These plants have grown by the unpaved road, so the passing vehicles cover them with dust every day. While moving across the leaf ...

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... in the process to form the droplets ...

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... the water is washing the surface, and the dust ends up trapped inside the lovely pearls.

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Some droplets have just a bit of decorative dust inside them, while others, like the one on this shot ad example, are pretty dense, completely filled with dust. After taking this shot ...

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... I noticed some spider motion among the foliage.

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This is some sack spider species from the Miturgidae family. The Cheiracanthium erraticum comes to mind, but I'm not sure.

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Here you can see the male and the female. It looks that the mating is going on.

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This species builds solid shelters by folding and stitching the leaves together.

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I left these interesting spiders ...

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... and then, some meters further, on another wild carrot plant ...

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... I noticed two minuscule crab spiders.

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Two young Thomisus onustus spiders.

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This carrot's flowerhead is still partially closed, shaped like a pot, so the spiders can go inside to hide when threatened.

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And that's all I have for this walk ... I mean, double - walk ...

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... as always here on HIVE, the photographs are my work - THE END.