i took a very posed and orderly photo of these leaves early in the day, and assumed that it would be today’s still blog image. and then i gradually fell out of love with the composition, and asked for family help, as i sometimes do when i feel empty of new arrangements and possibilities. and they came through, working through several variations on the theme of orderly and neat,  before resorting to the theme of overlapping and random. and suddenly i saw the ground in polynesia where we lived for three months one winter, and where tropical leaves and mangoes and papayas littered the bush at our feet whenever we walked anywhere that wasn’t beach. and i decided i had now finally found my still blog image for the day, because it meant something to me.

assorted tropical leaves