Having just returned from our daily exerciser, this morning when we were walking at the superb  grounds of Polseden Lacy; were we did had a lovely time. Liz frequently tells me that she does not walk in the wet; well this morning that was proven to be completely untrue. On the way back to the car we were caught in a colossal downpour of hail stones and I mean horizontal bucket fulls of the stuff. Within a hundred yards, we were completely soaked to the skin; I will give Liz her due: she laughed.

However now in a different vein, today we have two images, both looking at leaves and how magnificent they can be. Number one is of ivy growing on a fallen Silver birch log which I saw the other day at Hatchlands, it is a very loose splash it all around water-color. While number two, is what I call a digiscan of a leaf skeleton, showing dramatically how everything in nature is a cycle of birth, growth, decline, death and then a returning to the start. I picked the leaf up this morning above the Chalk Pit at Polseden Lacy, just before the soaking.

Basically a digiscan is produced by removing the top lid off your scanner, then darkening the room and then using the scanner as a camera. PS don't break the scanner!

Have fun Duncan