raindrops

Rain over night. A pair of hummingbirds were in the front flower garden while we sat outside drinking our morning coffee.

Novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand described herself as a romantic realist... As part of her aesthetics, Rand defined romantic realism as a portrayal of life "as it could be and should be." She wrote: "The method of romantic realism is to make life more beautiful and interesting than it actually is, yet give it all the reality, and even a more convincing reality than that of our everyday existence." Wikipedia

Crop, increase the color saturation, sharpness, and maybe use HDR to create a photograph "to make life more beautiful and interesting than it actually is..."