Welcome to my zone 9 garden. My roots are deeply planted in the sandy soil of sub-tropical central Florida, where the summers are long and hot, but the rest of the year is paradise!

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Real Live Fossil


This skeleton of a leaf in decay looks like it is fossilized into the concrete. It is, however, the lacy remnant of a leaf that was slowly completing its life cycle and returning to the earth.
Posted by Susan at 3:31 PM
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2 comments:

Rosengeranium said...

Lovely photo!

1:44 AM
Susan said...

rosengeranium...Thanks, I like the unusual.

9:26 AM

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