The Last Leaf....!

Senescence ! ... Another shot from Nov 14 2006. After this one is gone, my Empress Tree is asleep until Spring.

This is such a lonely leaf... ! The last one grown, is the last one dropped !

I collected each leaf that fell; I had a stack of elephant-ears sized 'sheets' to lay on the compost pile! Like some kind of stack of laundry

... Funny how I am even feeling lonely 'for her', when I don't see her at all now. She used to dominate her zone and 'greet me', she'd becon me to feed her every day !