Textured Tuesday: Crystal Screen

On my way to the grocery Sunday afternoon, 

I spotted a screen that had been blown out of a window 

during the overnight storms. Its beauty stopped me in my tracks.

Droplets of water clung to the underside of the screen, creating a pattern

of clear circles against its black grid. Then, as the weight of the accumulated

water caused the screen to sag, the puddle below acquired a pattern

of dashed lines. The best bit, though, was when I bent down

to see the shadows the screen had cast on the puddle:

there they were, the beads of water, both reflected and reflecting 

upward, revealing the gray sky and the grid that held them,

that kept them from joining the pooled water just below.