As I was getting out of my car a couple of days ago, the combination of light, color, and shape of this fallen leaf on the pavement arrested my attention. I didn’t move the leaf or change anything about it for the first photo. The sun was still low in the sky. I liked the reminder that nothing is what it appears superficially to be. The white strip indicates exactly where to park; but every square inch of it is unlike any other, the way every leaf is unlike every other leaf. Of course, I took all kinds of liberties with the leaf when I got the photo from my camera onto my computer.

trans·fig·u·ra·tion (trāns-fĭg'yə-rā'shən)
noun
a complete change of form or appearance
into a more beautiful or spiritual state.
POEM IN SEVEN IMAGES