in my nature notebook...

http://www.indieprettyprojects.com/2010/04/indie-pretty-id-guide-designing-with.html

 Students were painting oak leaves yesterday and I am trying to get them straight in my mind.  I copied this chart into my nature notebook but so far it isn't helping me when I stand under a tree--or when I need to sort out the acorns....John Ruskin said, 
“If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the whole world.”
 Some of the oaks are still sporting leaves here but they are the very last to fall (except maybe the service berries.)

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