The now banned pesticide DDT is ubiquitous in soils throughout California. This is because enormous tracts of land were once citrus orchards that were crop dusted from the air with millions of tons of the chemical. In orchards that still exist, if DDT concentrations are abnormally high, fruit crops may be at risk (be patient; I am going somewhere with this). DDT does not appreciably biodegrade over time so what was there once is there now. One way to test for DDT soil concentrations is to sample rain runoff from orchard fields. To do this, of course, it is necessary to wait for rain events. I was hired by a Buddhist monastery with a large, still active orange orchard to test their fields for DDT. OK, now we get to the art part. When it rains in California, it usually does so in the nighttime. It was, therefore, in the wee hours of the morning that I found myself on the monastery grounds taking rain runoff samples for chemical analysis. The orchard trees undulating over the hills were lit by a full moon. The monastery in the middle ground was illuminated by soft ground lights. It was a very ornate, colorfully painted old building with artful stucco moldings. The fragrance from the orchards after newly fallen rain was intoxicating ambrosia. It was utterly silent save for the musical, rhythmic, chirping of crickets. Suddenly, unexpectedly, still long before sunrise, the monks began their early morning chanting devotions. The whole scene had the ambience of some Elysian pastoral gift from heaven. I was utterly mesmerized by the beauty and transfixed by it. Someday, I thought, I am going to share this. This is that day. I hope you like it. Created in Ultra Fractal using various morphed Mandelbulb and Juliabulb formulas.