Art By Mother Nature
These past few days my task was to trim the vine. As I mentioned before, this is a job that needs to be done regularly, kind of like by the time you finish it, you can start again, so you're never bored as this never ends. What I'm doing now is crucial for the end result though. Grapes need to grow now, they need sunlight and leaving the jungle to grow will not help grapes ripe. This is a job for men usually, but I don't care. It's not a hard job, it's relaxing, helps me think of thing I need to do and maybe figure out new solutions, so I'm doing it.
While trimming the jungle (ok, it's not really a jungle as we don't let it get to that point), I noticed these leaves and that was a bitter sweet moment for me. Sweet because one of the most beautiful leave during autumn is the grape leave, due to its wonderful colors. I'm always doing a photo shoot or two when these leaves appear, so obviously I was happy to see them. But it was a bitter moment as well, because these leaves should turn red only at the end of September, middle of October and right now we're at the beginning of August.
These are unedited photos, so this is what the leaves look like. Look at those veins and colors. That green look amazing with that dark red, or claret, call it whatever you like.
If you look closely, you can see the red color starts to appear not at the veins, but between them and the veins are left last to turn red. Also, usually the leaves are darker green, but when time comes, they turn light green.
Even yellow as you can see on this one.
For me, this is art by mother nature and I hope I'm not the only one to appreciate this beauty.
Grapes are far from being ripe. They still need 2 months to be sweet and to reach the sugar level that is needed. But if the laves starting to go, we may have a problem. I can't remember if there has been similar case over the years, I need to ask my dad.
So I was wondering what could cause the leaves to turn rd already and dry. You may say lack of water, but unlike in previous years, this year was not so dray. Besides, old vine has deep roots, can reach down where there's plenty of water, so even a drought season can be fine.
At first I thought it was an isolated case, I thought most likely one stem is affected, which is not a big deal after all.
Then I found another one, on the other side, another type of grapes and it looks like it's going to spread, I mean more and more leaves are going to turn red and dry. Well, we'll see. There's not much we can do about it anyway.
This is the beginning, this is how it stats.
While trimming the vine, I spotted this little guy. It was a miracle as his color is the same as the leaves and I'm pretty sure a few of you won't notice him at first glance. I'm not friends with them, not even a fan, but was glad to take a few photos, of which only one is usable :)
I hope you like the grape leaves. There' more to cone, once the time comes. I don't ant to miss it s it's a real spectacle crated by mother nature. You can learn a lot just by looking at these leaves, especially if you're an artist.
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Awesome shot's, love it. Nature will always give us beauty.
Thank you. Indeed, nature creates beautiful things.
Nature's awesome - incredible colours on those leaves! Great photos indeed. The little guy (though potentially hungry) was pretty cute too. Stay safe my friend. Thanks for sharing.
I'm not sure if he was hungry, I don't even know what they eat, but he was not scared of me, which was a good sign 🙂
He must have known that you weren't a threat, which is cool. I think he may have been eating that same leaf that he was sitting on. If you look on the top right and bottom right.. there's little pieces which kinda look like it's been nibbled on?..
You might be right as those look like fresh marks. I was thinking maybe they eat small insects but who knows, maybe they eat both.
I don't what it is tbh - I probs need to brush up on my insects lmao. From what I've just read.. a locust would eat plant material, a praying mantis would eat insects.. whatever the little creature is, it's looks dope.
😂
Indeed it's one of the beautiful leave in autumn. It's purely a pure and fascinating art by nature.
For me this is the most beautiful leave.
I like to eat grapes, and sometimes I buy them at the fruit seller for my two sons, because one time someone told me that grapes are very good for children to eat to help children's intelligence. And by the way the dashing man is very cool. really, that's a handsome bush cricket :)
Grapes are healthy if you don't exaggerate. The truth is, they have high sugar level, but I'm sure your kids don't eat grapes all they long 🙂
Yeah. The yellowed leaves is another proof of how artistic nature is. And you're right, I didn't notice the little guy at the first glance. Not a fan as well but another pretty feature of nature on the grand scheme of things. I enjoyed it.🌺
See? I knew it can be confusing because of the color. I think it was pure miracle I noticed it.
Wow, these are so beautiful, nature is indeed beautiful. The leave are so colorful.
Thanks for the newbie resources.
You're welcome @fredaa, I hope it helps.
It sure will.
The red leaves may be because of some blockage of nutrients and water to the vascular system but this is just my assumption I'll suggest you do a petiole analysis to ascertain the cause.
Beautiful pictures by the way.
Well, the truth is, the process has started and can't be stopped or reversed, so we shall see what happens. Thanks for the tip though.
Photographed with great feeling I wish you all the best. And this grass foring is commonly seen in our country. But this kit moth does not harm our crops. Congratulations. Presented a lot of excellent photography.But I like grapes very much
Thank you for stopping by and have a nice day.
You are most Wellcome @erikah
Grasshoppers are leaves eaters.They eat our Pechay leaves
What nice leaves, I hadn't read much about grapes but I found the work involved interesting, nice photos!