Kept...

I think I wrote a while ago about this habit I got into last autumn of picking up and keeping fallen leaves - not any leaves in particular, just those that caught my eye or seemed to present themselves to me.

They are scattered around the house; on shelves, and window ledges and the bedside table. They have slowly dried out, and curled. Some have bleached their colour, but others - like this one - have kept theirs, maybe even growing more intense.

And feathers...lots of them picked up and kept too... Totems of wild nature.