Eastern Cottonwood Leaf
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Warren, Connecticut. This leaf came from a large eastern cottonwood tree that fell out of the woods south of our garden and got caught in the power lines. It was large enough so it deflected the lines a good 10 feet and I was sure we’d have a disaster with it falling on a passing car and live power lines flailing around, not to mention we’d lose power, phone, cable. However, a crew came and cleaned it all up, leaving me some nice looking leaves I’d never really seen before.
Another view of the same image.
These are great - each time I see one I immediate think it looks like a subdivision of houses as seen from an airliner.
Steve: right, absolutely. Sort of “fractally,” don’t you think?