The Last Raindrop/Teardrop

I took this picture out in my garden last summer. The plant itself is of the Sedum family (it is meant to attract butterflies)which was given to me by Danielle's mother.

(Danielle was Catherine's friend and a survivor of the crash that killed Catherine.)

When I saw this one lone raindrop left on the leaf, I hurried indoors to get the camera to capture the moment before it was lost.

This one little picture can speak volumes to so many people for so many different reasons: abandonment, loneliness, grief, sadness, and hundreds of other emotions. It evokes a lot of emotion for me because the raindrop is on this particular plant and not just any old plant, and resembles (to me) just one of the many tears that are trapped within me.

It also reminds me so much of a print that my mum bought many, many years ago of an orchid left on the steps of a building where there had been some kind of celebrations. It was left there with all the abandoned streamers etc, with a single tear falling from it.

My mum called it the Lost Orchid although I'm not sure that that was its proper title.