mulberry leaves

This morning I had a "heightened moment" when I found these mulberry leaves between sheets of newspaper, where I'd dried them. They were gorgeous. I put one in this wooden "vase"--it doesn't hold water, but with a dried leaf, that doesn't matter--and one under it. With morning light streaming through the upper leaf, the browns and acid greens were spectacular. Tonight, all that luminosity is lost, but you can sort of see how pretty the colors are.