Yes the day has dawned cool with the threat of rain. Yes, Toronto is buried under a mountain of garbage. And yes, we all have to go back to work tomorrow.

But it's Canada Day, our national holiday and we can still find plenty of fun (or relaxation) to celebrate.

John Gillet of Burlington did a little early celebrating, creating this Canadian flag in a drop of water. Here's how he did it.

These shots were done on the dining room table. A casserole dish was filled to the rim with water, and placed on a cookie sheet to avoid soaking the table.

A page-sized printout of a Canadian flag was mounted on a stand upside down, on the table, behind the dish of water and up just high enough to be outside the frame of the photos.

Two flashes, behind and to the sides of the dish, were pointed at the flag. A baggy of water was suspended about three feet above the dish and a hole poked in it with a pin to allow water drops to form and fall. The droplets acted like lenses, reversing the flag to right side up.

The stop-action was not achieved by a fast shutterspeed in the camera, but rather by the short duration of the flash of light supplied by the flashes in the dimly lit room.

The photographer pressed the shutter release to take the photos, trying to time the drops by eye and ear.