Blooming Marvellous

I was out in the pouring rain filling up the bird feeders this morning when I noticed this little beauty flowering its heart out in the corner of the back garden.  You can see how wet it was by the gloss on its leaves and raindrops on the petals.

We had a Running Stitchers meeting yesterday too and as part of it we did a little sketchbook exercise in black and white and this is what I created ....