When I first saw this from a distance, I thought the fairies had been drawing on the leaves with black ink. A leaf miner is a much more prosaic explanation, but it’s still kind of beautiful.
When I first saw this from a distance, I thought the fairies had been drawing on the leaves with black ink. A leaf miner is a much more prosaic explanation, but it’s still kind of beautiful.
I agree with you. Reminded me of this:
“The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.”
-Francis Church, “The Sun” newspaper 1897
Ooh, yes, fairy magic! Maybe they subcontract out to the leaf miners?