The story that flows through the book...

(not sure I can do this...it will be hard to understand, as it doesn't make much sense without the pictures, and I had to shorten the width, that means that some lines may be over a few lines on a page OR maybe not. It printed on a fade through blueish paper - later I will show you a couple of pages, so you can see how it will work)

Follow my tale, be it real or imagined

For me this small quote evokes that leaves are. Be it an autumnal day when they sway/dance

to an unseen tune

Birds, light as a feather,

Go with the flow

Did you flip me, yes you did!

Add your memory, go on I know you want to…

See we are different, small or large, even spiky. JOY

Can you image this huge green leaf, like a plate Floating oasis, protecting what lies behind

Leaves provide the growing protection for these magic blooms – once a year – December.

More leaves provide shelter for fruits, who doesn’t like a crunchy apple with that tiny leaf at the stalk end.

This sentiment sums up well feed and watered – greening, maturing our world of blossoms.

We need the humble leaf – nurtures the fruit

Glorious fruits

Feed, water, sun

= greening our world

Adds much to our natural world,

producing colour and soil

Contrast with softness, the precision

Gardener

Turn the page, have we entered rage,

a vastly different leafy world

Is it morn or eve, you decide

Deep in the forest, tall and semi old trees,

leaves far above … unseen

On the ground, that odd grouping

waiting

From a forest cloaked in green to a magic

summers day

We leave reality and stride forth into abstract

Interest unfolds

Among the leaves, my house cold in winter

I flee to summer climes

Bewildering, I feel not so safe

Until I’m enveloped, hidden among foliage

A different leaf, or is it?

Among the fallen debris of life,

Odd trees appear

Simple ferns evolve, not planted just arrive

A trailing vine – magnificent leaves

Protect fruits and tiny bugs

Long evolved trees

Create sanctuary

Now pen your own thoughts, find a leaf

Back among the precision gardener,

leaves await colour.

And just to be sure, more for colouring in

Peace and security, go hug a tree

Today

and live more positively

Our trees need you

As we need them

Winter comes, we lose our leaves

They often just float away on a whim

But they will come again

And when they do, they bring with them

the buds of flowers and fruits – Spring

As this small book comes to an end, we are

reminded that I can be a big or a small leaf among

Large and Small trees

I am a community – a necessity of life

I’m with you in different guises – year round

Sometimes dormant, taking time to return

I’m a special connection to a plant based life

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A little book about trees and leaves, with an emphasis on leaves. Originally this was a plain paged note book for you to write in, but I then decided a tiny story with pictures and some words was a better way for you to enjoy flipping through it. I created all the pictures, and of course the words. ENJOY