September 19, part 1

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Datura.  I think these are the biggest flowers in the neighborhood, after that fuchsia hibiscus.  The flower must be 6" or more, across.

This incipient flower is more than 8" long, I bet, from the curly yellowish top to the round green bottom.

Looking down at the unfurling petals.

I think this may be my favorite leaf so far this fall.  So little, so vibrant.....  Doesn't it look nice with the mechanical black & white?

Leaf, book, leash, dog.

Potentilla.

I think of leaves as two-dimensional, probably because their thickness isn't.  Very.

But when you consider that the leaf stands up on its points, then it becomes entirely three-dimensional.

I love this pic.  Love the leaf, love the 3-d view of the leaf, love the contrast between the bright natural shape of the leaf and the totally man-made black and white of the print on the pages...  Love that the book is being 3-d, too -- foreground and background.....

A significant part of my life is represented here.  The dog and I walk, for about half an hour, every day.  Every.  Single.  Day.

I am almost at the end of Jane Jeffry, alas.  I have read the Jane books the Ann Arbor library does not deign to purchase (thank goodness for inter-library loan!).  I do not know what I will read next, moseying along with the dog..................



Today's leaf with yesterday's, which was still happy on the back stoop.

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