leaf cycle

wonderful, this nature design and your image

Happy festive days!

thank you!

A wonderful image showing the cycle perfectly and making a great photo with the shapes colours and textures

thank you, Peter. so glad you like it.

Un beau cycle en plein métamorphose .!
Bon Weekend salutaire.

so happy you like it. i love the cycle of life.

A very beautiful photo composed perfectly around those very interesting (and, in a sense complementary) curves. Super!

oh, thank you. i love how cloesly you've looked!

A beautiful natural stillife, Laura ! Wish you a very nice weekend ahead !

thank you, John. so glad you like it. happy sunday!

A little work of art, Laura! Love the textures of the mulching leaves as much as the graceful and colorful patterns of the newly fallen ones!

you are so kind. thank you. so glad it pleases you.

Nature is amazing!

indeed! i'm amazed by it every day.

....ein sehr schönes Naturstillleben liebe Laura,das du sehr schön zeigst:))

.......wünsche noch einen schönen Nachmittag,ganz liebe Grüße Güni:))

thank you kindly. happy sunday to you.

I like the contrast between the newly fallen leaves and the older ones.............the newer leaves have made a delightful pattern. Well observed and taken Laura.

oh good! so happy you like it. thank you for your kind words. it was indeed the pattern that first drew me to the leaves.

Schöner Kontrast.

*smile* thank you.

en attendant celles de l' année prochaine !!

*smile*

A nice composition of a wet autumn. All the best, Anton.

thank you. autumn is mostly wet around here! peace.

I like this composition

thank you. to me the subject matter is less important than the composition in this photo - though i do keep wondering if anyone will mention the new tiny leaf peeking out in the photo.

tutto ha una fine e tutto si trasforma ...
molto evocativa !

thank you so much. yes, endings are still a struggle for me, but when i see life cycle like this i can appreciate the transformation.

and the new cycle has such a powerful part !
nice curves

Most appropriate image for Vincent Millay, I presume

Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,
And all the flowers that in the springtime grow,
And dusty roads, and thistles, and the slow
Rising of the round moon, all throats that sing
The summer through, and each departing wing,
And all the nests that the bared branches show,
And all winds that in any weather blow,
And all the storms that the four seasons bring.

You go no more on your exultant feet
Up paths that only mist and morning knew,
Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat
Of a bird’s wings too high in air to view,—
But you were something more than young and sweet
And fair,—and the long year remembers you.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

wonderful! and yes, i suppose it is just right for that poem.

if you love poetry, my husband, Larry Beckett, is a poet and will be on BBC4 radio Sunday, Jan 9th at 8:30am U. S. west coast time, on their program 'Poetry Please'. One can listen later also. They will read a number of different poems in the 28 minutes of the show. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00138rw

... colors and hues; and textures: so nice ...

so kind... thank you.

A so beautiful, and moving, still life...
Life and death, which we no longer know how to conjugate, are in contrast but united in your powerful composition, Laura. Just to paraphrase your title....

You're so kind, Eric. Thank you for that. I'm really glad it struck you in such a dramatic way. And yes, life and death "no longer know how to conjugate" - so true.

Wonderful image.