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Last leaf hanging on the tree
Only bare wood it does see
As the Winter breeze does blow
The leaf waits for the time to go
Down silently to the ground
Where among the green, will be found
Among the beauty, a eye does see
Peace in the shadow of the tree
As the sun shines in the sky
On the leaf appears a y
Y its there no one knows
As the ray of life now flows
Down to the tree , far beneath
Where waits the lonely leaf
That asks for a meaning in the sky
But gets no answer because no one knows y
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Highest Position: 215 on Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore -
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Tomorrow's MM is a plant in full frame so I have tried a few. This is the new leaf on my very small banana tree; three new ones have grown since I started making the Tibetan brass bowl sing to it (plus a lot of babies round the base, not sure what to do about them).
Sycamore Leaf (maybe, correct me if I'm wrong). Taken one morning down by the River Ericht, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Taken on Sony Xperia Z3 Compact.
Refold/redesign of Linnaeus' Leaf Insect. Antennae were made to more realistic length, tarsi were lengthened, pretarsal bifurcation added. The back still needs some work, but I think it's moving in a more realistic direction. Takes 3x longer to fold now. ;)
You tell her that it's M-A-P-L-E.
You ask her if she knows a maple tree.
Well, you were named after a maple tree. - Robert Frost
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Leaf: a lateral outgrowth from a plant stem that is typically a flattened expanded variably shaped greenish organ, constitutes a unit of the foliage, and functions primarily in food manufacture by photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants.
Darmera peltata (Indian rhubarb or, ambiguously, "umbrella plant") is a flowering plant, the only species within the genus Darmera in the family Saxifragaceae. It is a slowly spreading rhizomatous perennial native to mountain streamsides in woodland in the western United States (southwestern Oregon to northwestern California), growing to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall by 1 m (3 ft 3 in) wide.
In late spring the flowers emerge before the leaves, with rounded cymes of numerous five-petalled white to bright pink flowers (measuring up to 1.5cm across each) borne on flower stems up to 2m long. The leaves are peltate, rounded, deeply lobed, coarsely toothed, conspicuously veined and dark green, also on stems up to 2m in height. The leaves turn red in autumn.
In gardens, Darmera peltata flourishes in pond margins and bog gardens, where it forms an imposing umbrella-like clump. It is suited to smaller gardens where there is no room for Gunnera manicata or Gunnera tinctoria, unrelated plants that are somewhat similar in appearance, but much larger.
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Darmera peltata, of schildblad is een typische plant voor bij het water. Van nature komt hij voor bij beekjes in Noord-Amerika. Daarom moet hij in natte grond staan.
Daarnaast zijn de grote bladeren ook een prachtig gezicht naast een vijver of stroompje. Deze bladeren worden schildvormig genoemd. Vandaar de Nederlandse naam en de Latijnse soortaanduiding peltata, dat schildvormig betekent. Een blad is meestal 20 tot 25 centimeter lang maar kan wel eens uitgroeien tot een halve meter in doorsnee. De bladstelen kunnen wel een meter hoog worden. In de herfst kan het blad mooi verkleuren en geel tot rood worden. Daarna worden ze bruin en vouwt het blad zich dicht tot een soort beursje.
Op zich voldoende reden om van deze plant te houden, maar hij heeft nog een bijzonderheid. Voordat het blad verschijnt, bloeit deze plant. Dat doet hij in april/mei op kale stengels zonder blad. Daarom wordt schildblad ook wel een ‘naaktbloeier’ genoemd. De prachtige bloemen zijn wit met een roze hart en opvallende gele meeldraden.