Nature

So Much Like a Leaf by Lucrecer Braxton / Living in Cincinnati

My girls were on the front porch and saw what appeared to be a leaf...then they saw it move. We are not sure what happened, but he was laboring with his breathing and I could tell he was not going to last much longer. I do not know why, but it was almost a spiritual experience photographing this creature in its last moments. I noticed the details of its body, how it breathed and its brilliant green color. My eldest daughter noticed it was missing a back leg. We moved him from the porch so no one would step on him. My daughter thought that maybe he would fly away. The next morning, we found him dead in our flower bed.

Dead Betty says:

I'm depressed now.

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• Posted Tuesday Sep 09, 2008 at 08:36 pm

Fishit says:

One of life's moments, repeated over and over, as is birth.

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• Posted Saturday Sep 13, 2008 at 07:55 pm

Palemommy says:

poor li'l fella.

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• Posted Thursday Sep 25, 2008 at 05:51 pm