2012 Photo Challenge: Black & White Leaf

Challenge:  Black & White.  Week 1, Photo 1.  I found this leaf on a beautiful bed of green winter rye so green - the leaf dead as a doornail and dry as kindling, but for some reason it is WAY more appealing in black and white over the original color alternative.  It really makes the veins in the leaf pop.  

Foliage

I love a good walk in nature, it's even better on a beautiful fall day.  These were at eye level and I couldn't help but snap a quick pick.

Somewhere between Sunset & Civil Twilight

Beautiful end to a beautiful day.

Year 2 - Day 30

ROOMS WITH A VIEW

Couldn't walk by this house without taking a shot.

Day 326: Roots

Day 304: Bee Hives

Day 252: Veins

I was walking down the street and I noticed some of the veins on the leaves of this oak were so pronounced I had to go grab my camera.  I hope you didn't expect blood....

Day 237: Chasing the light

I took this not long before sunset on a nature walk with the boys.  We saw three deer (yes I got a shot), we saw a 20 ft long snake skin laying in a tree (maybe that's an exaggerations but it was BIG) but I keep coming back to this photo. The play of the light on the trunk of the tree...I don't know moves me.  Yes, I know I'm a dork.

Day 228: A lighted trail

It was on this walk - and it wasn't a very far walk - that I was exposed to the horrors that might be poison ivy.  I noticed when I went under the underpass that there were spotlights all over the ground.  I was surprised to find that there were tiny holes (about 1 inch) in the pavement above to let the light through.  I loved the way the lights made tiny little spotlights.

Day 212: The Road to Know-Where

Do you ever look up and stare at a tree?  Its branches are like paths - you hit a fork and you choose.  It doesn't matter which way you go; there is no right or wrong only choices.  Sometimes if you look long enough you aren't thinking about choices anymore your mind just wanders where it wants to go and the stress leaves your body and your mind is where it wants to be.  Sometimes you have to know where it is you want to be before you can choose a path.

And sometimes, you just find a little peace staring up at the branches of a tree.

Inspiration:  Mother Nature