I think that any tree - even the least valued one - is a miracle. This view of the top branches of an Albizia julibrissin caught my sight - and my heart - early morning today when, after a night of gentle rain, I have clumsily stumbled out onto our bedroom balcony and discovered that there was a gorgeous day in the making.

Below: Details of the branches. The more one observes what some consider a dumb and non-intelligent Nature, the more amazed and puzzled one remains. Where does all that fancy and artificial-looking geometry come from? And the perfect shapes of the water droplets which, thanks to the waxy surface of the leafs, seem to be levitating spheres?

From our bedroom balcony, Castano Primo, Lombardia (North Italy), May 10 and June 21, 2009