if it wouldn’t have broken one of the cardinal rules of still blog, i would have set my open hand in this picture to give a sense of scale to this two foot long burdock leaf and its foot and a half long stem. instead, you’ll just have to imagine me standing at the bottom of this picture, and the top of the leaf reaching between my belly button and my sternum.

beetle eaten burdock leaf

sucker lake regional park, saint paul, minnesota