Multiplied Beauty

          

Recently, I was studying a couple of wonderful trees in our area…. One is a huge copper beech. It has such a perfect shape and is some 130 years old according to the forestry specialists. The other is a magnificent cedar of Lebanon with its flowing, graceful branches.  As I think about such amazing designs, I reflect that they both have leaves, of differing structure but similar function to generate food for the tree and to release oxygen.

If you have time it is worth reading the Wikpedia notes about leaves. "In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Leaves are also the sites in most plants where transpiration and guttation take place. ...  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf

Further thought leaves one amazed by the fact that tons of water are delivered through the trunk to the leaves through the thousands of capillary tubes. Quite a feat. Quite a design. Father's  Handiwork for sure!!