November 9, 2012 -- leaf with honeycomb of tubes

These were my two favorite things to look at today, so I decided to combine them. The red maple leaf I found on my morning walk. It had been pressed flat by passing cars! The box full of tubes arrived in the mail a couple of days ago, and I pulled a couple out to use them yesterday, but today I returned them to the box, where they look so cool and honeycomb-like. I cut the flaps off the box, but that's all I did to change the box into a "vase."