Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Leaves compared with flowers

Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.

A tree's leaves may be ever so good, So may its bar, so may its wood; But unless you put the right thing to its root Excerpt "Leaves compared with Flowers" ~ Robert Frost "Trees have roots and I have legs; I owe my life to that." ~ George Steiner

I bade men tell me which in brief, Which is fairer, flower or leaf. They did not have the wit to say, Leaves by night and flowers by day. Leaves and bar, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood. Robert Frost

Late in life I have come on fern. Now lichens are due to have their turn. ~ Robert Frost