last night i said to steve,”ok there it is. i just put everything i have left into today’s image.  have no more ideas. no more collections. no more specimens. no more b-squad images just good enough to be still-blog-worthy on a bad still-blog day. and it’s still only january. i’ve still (no pun intended) gotta fill two whole months of winter. i’m tapped out,” i said. and i meant it. then, this morning, i took a single leaf from a single stem from a single square of yesterday’s color swatch image, and i’ll be damned if i didn’t come up with this! someday, when i’m finally worthy of her, i will internalize the fact that nature contains boundless inspiration. in the meantime, i’ll just say a humble thanks.

a single leaf from a blade of prairie grass, probably quack grass

grass lake regional trail, saint paul, minnesota