Hibiscus After The Rain

I was able to catch our hibiscus plant in our backyard after an afternoon shower.  I love the beauty of the color contrasting with the background and the beaded rain drops on the petals.  This is probably my wife's favorite flowering shrub in out yard. Even the camera lens cannot capture the real beauty one sees after a rain.  This particular variety is the Hibiscus syriacus named for the Greek officials that tended to Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, inspiration, and the arts bestowed upon them by Pedanius Dioscorides a Greek physician and botanist circa 60 - 90 C.E.