After the rain II

 
Things around my garden have been enjoying the recent rains, and the lighting this morning was perfect.

I still prefer to use manual focus when taking macro (close up) photos of plants, their intricate shadows and patterns can often fool the autofocus into blurring your subject while bringing a leaf or twig off to the side into sharp focus. Autofocus can be particularly difficult when you subject is light (a white flower) and your background dark (in shadow)