Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Devices Photo Challenge: Nature…Leaves

After an infinitely long (two week) break while our hostess-with-the-mostess went on a well-deserved vacation (hope you had a great time, Sally), the Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Devices Photo Challenge (aka Phoneography Challenge) is back.  As we’ve entered a new month, our first-Monday theme is “Nature.”

Nature will bear the closest inspection.  She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
~Henry David Thoreau

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.  There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree,the trembling of a leaf.
~Albert Schweitzer

I believe that a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
~Walt Whitman

A leaf fluttered through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
~Anais Nin