It was another evening in Palera, the coastal area near the harbor of Liznjan. (Enlargeable)I was there to get my daily dose of meditation and healing through macrophotography and a bunch of pictures for a post to publish on Hive. There is always something interesting to explore and photograph through the macro lens at this time of the year here in my area, so I always get at least a little more than I expect.

The rain was short but heavy. It was very intense. Some parts of my hometown were seriously flooded, and properties were damaged. My neiberhood is uphill enough, and the drainage system works fine, so I can now write this post instead of repairing stuff around the house. It all happened about seven or eight hours ago. It's still fresh. I was sitting here and planning another, much longer post to publish a couple of days from now, when the Reflection Hunters Contest came to my mind. With a temporary little swamp in my yard, I got a nice opportunity to photograph a few interesting reflections.

The 29th of April this year was a warm and sunny day, the weather was very typical for the season. I spent the whole afternoon in Palera, the coastal, agriculture-oriented area about five or six kilometers from my hometown, busy photographing plants and small animals that are very active and abundant in spring.

The evening is almost a character in each of these evening posts I've been publishing quite often lately. The flora and fauna change, but the evening is always there, providing a thematic backbone that creates a feel of a series slowly shaping out. In this post, or an episode of sorts, there is another contender for the place of the main protagonist. It is not a single plant or animal, but a pretty large group of species defined as the order Hemiptera.

The title mentions a colorful evening but isn't meant to be taken literally. The evening in general wasn't more colorful than the previous few I enjoyed in Palera, but I did find two insects with an intense, vivid coloration, making the entire experience a bit more colorful than usual.

The weather was highly volatile today. It was rainy, then sunny, and all the variations in between, not only once but quite a few times from dawn till dusk. At about nine o'clock in the morning, I went for a walk in Palera, an agriculture-oriented area near the village of Liznjan, after buying a few things in one of the two supermarkets of Medulin, my hometown. After a short drive that got me quickly across the five or six kilometers that separate my house and Palera, I parked by the side of the unpaved road, hoping to get enough dry time for a decent amount of good photographs that could lead to something fairly interesting for today's post. Now, after preparing the good shots and deleting the bad and unnecessary ones, I must confess that I'm pretty satisfied with what I caught in a little less than an hour in between two periods of rain.