The beauty of a leaf

Sat waiting for daughter in Glasgow and staring at the ground, I noticed that some of the fallen leaves were amazing with their various colours literally glowing in the sunshine, something I have never noticed before. I picked up some so as to bring them home and photograph. Unfortunately by the time I had got back they had started to shrivel up, but these two show, I think, what I mean. The smaller leaf was just as colourful as the larger one but lost its colour more quickly. 


Colour of a leaf by Helen Skelton, on Flickr