Turning Over An Old Leaf - It's A Kind Of Magic

Today's image was as the result of turning over an old leaf and not a new one. I'd found this almost completely decomposed leaf in our garden and thought I might utilise it for future blip but lost it and only came across it again today when I found it, rather randomly, inside a little tin cup on our kitchen windowsill.
Apparently they are more widely known as leaf skeletons and when I held it up again to the light today it really did feel like a little piece of magic - they are actually quite rare and have been described as akin to finding a four leaf clover or seeing a double rainbow.
The circumstances for nature to create a leaf skeleton have to be just right - damp enough for the fleshy parts of the leaf to decompose, sheltered enough (probably under other leaves) to encourage microscopic organisms to eat away at those leaves, and somehow exposed at just the right time to find the leaf while all the veins are still in place, before it breaks or blows away.
So a very fragile and rather remarkable survivor which I wanted to celebrate before it disintegrated altogether. Rather than just capture a straight on image I wanted to add a bit of colour which harked back to its original state in some way which is when I happened upon a bright green woven shopping bag and decided it was rather fitting as a background. So I propped the leaf skeleton up on the little tin cup I had found it in and let the afternoon light streaming in through the kitchen window do the rest!