Here are two more images, although of one leaf, for the project which has still no plan. Someone once said, maybe more than one someone, that “No plan is a plan”. Maybe happy accidents are better.
Here is a scan of the red oak leaf (Quercus rubra); it got a bit soft, then rippled and didn’t flatten under the weight of the scanner cover,
and a backlit macro shot in the field.
I am sure some purpose for doing this will arise at some time. Failing that, the look at the leaf structure and coloration is worth the study.
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I don’t think there can be a wasted moment during nature study.
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The pattern in macro shot is amazing.
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The closer we look the more there is to see, eh?
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Agreed: “the look at the leaf structure and coloration is worth the study.”
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Even the “plainest” of subjects reveals intricacies we can’t imagine.
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I never would have believed there is so much variety of color in a green leaf. I have several native red oaks in my yard but they are probably a different variety or sub species are something like that. I’m not “into” botany but I do love trees.
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I am not sure if all young leaves of a red oak are this colorful or if it happens as a result of the field where this was growing is mowed annually. So this is from what might be looked at as a perennial sapling. Also, it seems many leaves change color as they mature.
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The rippled leaf is wonderful. Maybe I’m just getting to the age that I appreciate wrinkles in any form. What strikes me about the macro shot is how the bands of color mimic what someone would have seen, flying over parts of the hill country on my recent trip. The horsemint and galliardia sometimes were intermixed, but in places they formed banded purple and yellow colonies. The landscape looked striped.
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It is interesting the way certain things have a different appearance or relationship depending on the individual. I have always seen this sort of detail as similar to a river and it’s tributaries and their tributaries etc. In many ways that is exactly what we are seeing as the transport of food and water is transpiring. The color does remind me of the different fields I saw during my one and only flight as we traveled across country.
I think ripples are more youthful and wrinkles are more, well…we know what they represent. At least we can call some of them “smile lines”.
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Fascinating detail.
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Thank you, Lemony.
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Excellent photo!
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Thank you.
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