As one would expect during this time of year, the grounds of the Hermitage Arms are littered with fallen leaves, including those from the Eastern Redbud:
What one wouldn't expect is to see one sort of floating above an agave plant, as we witnessed in passing a couple of evenings ago, and on the following morning:
Ah, we thought, the leaf must have managed to fall just so, its balance/pivot point resting on the tip of the agave "dagger",creating sort of a natural weather vane:
But no; on closer inspection, it turned out the leaf was impaled. An not just impaled, but kind of "double impaled" (look closely at the image on the left).
We have to wonder just what the odds were of that happening...and what they are of it ever happening again.
