Grapevine leaves

Swing into autumn in the garden still going full steam ahead - for the grapevine, at least.
Amazing how the individual leaves look relatively smooth and uniformly coloured from a distance; but get up close with a sharp eye - or if they've gone AWOL, a macro lens - and it's a whole different story.
Much more splotchy or graded colouring than monochrome;  and the myriad of veins in the leaf are more like a crazy mosaic than anything resembling an ordered pattern. 
There's also a huge range of different sized leaves, and even different shaped leaves - sometimes on the same branch of the same plant. One size (or shape) does not all sizes fit.
Thinking there must be a far greater number of differences between the individual leaves than there are similarities. And those similarities are really only that. While I haven't quite gone through each and every leaf on the vine - I have a life outside Blipfoto, promise! - it's not at all easy to find two leaves that are anywhere near identical in more than one respect at a time.
So while the wider perspective would suggest that the gradual shift from one season to the next in the garden is the epitome of ordered, precise and uniform metamorphosis, an  up-close-and-personal view suggests a much more random, chaotic and differentiated process is unfolding. 
Combine the two perspectives, and no matter how you cut it, a season change is easily as good as a holiday.