An artist Ferdinand Hodler was talking about similarities once and and he explained that every maple leaf is different and that you could search billions of them and not find two identical. And yet we can identify a maple leaf as such because it looks like a maple leaf. I'm not sure if he was talking about painting styles or how we just perceive everything. I think about that sometimes, about stereotypes--how it is unfair to stereotype because even if we witness similar traits or even actions, no to people are ever exact--not even identical twins, yet sometimes categorizing helps us understand people better. We can understand the mindset sometimes, even though we can't entirely know what each person is thinking or capable of thinking. Its always amazing to me to get to know some people a little better and learn the depth of their character. Today as was heading to a soccer game I saw this one red leaf and really thought about making a picture but passed it up---I've been a little fixated on leaves this fall for some reason. A few step later i saw the yellow leaf and thought about artist Andy Goldsworthy who would round up hundreds of leaves and sort them by color and then put them together in amazing visual ways--I didn't have time for this--I heard whistles and cheers and knew I was late to the game, but I did just snap one frame of the two leaves together. Not for any great photograph--though it is pretty, but because I was thinking about similarities and infinite differences! Photograph by Richard Sayer.
I really miss the beautiful Maple leaf colors. Remember how beautiful the Scituate Reservoir was every fall? And the White Mountains of NH? Especially along the river on the way the Mt. Washington? Memories!!!!!