branching

network of nerves? avioli in the lungs? transportation map for a large city?  arteries and veins of the heart?   smokebush flowers? nope. It’s the stems of spent black elderberry flowers. isn’t it amazing how universal it feels. nature is infinitely varied, and yet built one such similar building blocks–we are all just slight variations on a a few repeated themes.

black elderberry inflorescence (Sambucus)