Our pink grapes seem to have trouble turning brown and falling off while ripening, and we lose more than we get to eat! Still, they are so pretty when they are green, and we certainly enjoy the ones we do eat! Year by year, the two vines produce more and more grapes so we always look forward to "next year." These grapes are like life, or what it can be when we focus on hope and all that is good!!!

Clover & Leaf: A Play of Natural Color

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When I saw this sweetgum leaf off a tree in my backyard a little before Thanksgiving of last year (2011), I knew I had to capture it on the camera. The natural art of this single leave is phenomenal. Then, I thought about the background and knew that the colors of the sweetgum leaf would contrast nicely with a bed of clover not far out in the yard.