As I near the Hutcheson Ferry end of Piney Woods Church Road, I glance to my left and my eyes catch a lone oak leaf from last year. It waves at me, greeting me with shades of red, orange, and yellow-green.
Mar 242014
As I near the Hutcheson Ferry end of Piney Woods Church Road, I glance to my left and my eyes catch a lone oak leaf from last year. It waves at me, greeting me with shades of red, orange, and yellow-green.
A single red water oak leaf in the morning sunlight, viewed against the forest background along Piney Woods Church Road: the image resolves itself into three spaces, like three lines of haiku.
After the overnight rainstorm, the ditches along Piney Woods Church Road had filled with water once again. In one of them, I saw this oak leaf floating, the edges of the leaf slowly taking on water. The stillness of the scene offers no hint of the raw winter’s day on which I took this photograph.