There was one of these that I passes on ym way to school, every time I saw it I promised myself to take a photo next time, I never did.

Glad someone did!

An artist's palette in the form of a tree, great shot.

Thank you! I loved how it stood out among the foliage surrounding it; everything nearby was dark green and looked as though it had no intention of changing color while this tree stood by itself on a corner with dazzling color prominent in every leaf. Not that green leaves can't be dazzling but green leaves are so common that they begin to blend together after a time.

It's too bad you never took a photo of your tree, I would have liked to see it!

It looked startlingly similar to the one you've captured the essence of here, albeit in duller surrounds - the red brick walls of an estate on a main (though not major) road.

Sometimes a sea of green can be as majestic as the most glamorous splashes of extravagant colour...

I tried to capture it once, albeit to no avail - no matter how many images I took, the colours looked lifeless, dulled and deadened, a parody of the real thing. In person, it looked... alive, a sea of leaves, the gentle sway and swell of waves, the gentle break at the edge of the forest... it breathed.

It's funny how you can sometimes overlook the most extravagant and beauteous sights that nature provides us with because they are so obvious...

It's rather sad, actually, that the most glorious and thrilling scenes in nature can become commonplace and shifted to the background of one's mind just because they are seen too often. True as well of architecture, art, the people around us. The observations we make when first seeing a thing can fade away until we no longer remember our first impressions.