Bright Leaves ...

...  topping off the dogwood by our back door, still with drops from last night's rain.  The PVPA (my regular photo club) had its monthly meeting tonight. We again were provided with a "Challenge" image for us to embellish (as we were in May)--this time a photo of a dark cellar at Ellis Island.  I again populated the image with birds, to suit the forbidding environment, as you see in the extra. (Clockwise from lower left: turkey vulture, osprey with a headless fish, black vulture, crow with its dead prey.)