A broad leaf growing by a pile of bricks, obscurely out of focus.

Taken with a Helios-44-2.

This is a leaf. It has drops of Mercury on it from Acid Rain.

Photo: Ken Fager

The maples are multiplying and taking over our pine forest..

Another candidate for the black-and-white fall slide show.

Didn't focus as well as I thought. But the female pokes holes in the bottom of the leaf for nutrients. When I was in college I had to count these suckers. Some leaves had over 500 holes. Ugh! Maybe that's why I am squinting at the screen now ;)

Rutgers Garden

Taro Leaf

Colourful fallen leaf. Grounds of Castle Durrow Hotel, Co. Laois, Ireland

I had a plan for my Sunday diary entry but it was short circuited by some very wacky dry season weather: Overcast most of the day with intermittent showers throughout the afternoon.

I had a couple of shots I was not really pleased with but it was all I had until I took Cayenne out back to pee.

When I flipped on a terrace light I saw this strange looking guy hanging a column just below the light. He was very cooperative, sitting motionless while I took a variety of shots both with and without flash. I've rotated this 90 degrees as he shows better horizontally.

The variety of strange looking insects here never ceases to fascinate me.

sun shines through a big leaf in the tropical house at Cotswold Wildlife Park, Burford

A very large tropical leaf photographed in the green house at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

mountain maple

IMG_3870: What a wonderful season for photography! Nature makes it so easy in the autumn to take a beautiful photo :)

Botanical Gardens, Singapore

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Huge leaf lit by the sun from behind

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A random plant in my garden. I love that the light shines through the leaf highlighting all the veins and the little hairs =]

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Google Search says this is a microcentrum retinerve or lesser angle-wing katydid. All I know is he does a great imitation of a leaf. He was strolling around the edge of our bird bath and I provided him with a leaf which he quickly got on.

color in the yard

The sun came out again after more rain. :)

This is straight out of the camera.

I do loves the fall color. I'm pretty sure this was the same tree as the macro leaf vein picture.

It's possibly some sort of Cercis

Autumn Maple Leaf

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