Ginkgo Grace

I like ginkgo trees  – the way the trees grow…the shape of the leaves and the way they move in the breeze (I’ve heard that their fruit is stinky but have never been around a tree that had fruit). There is a tree in the picnic area of Howard County Conservancy’s Mt. Pleasant Farm that I’ve photographed several times over the past few weeks; I’m sharing my two favorite images – perhaps of the same branch.

The first day was very cloudy. The leaves are in silhouette against  gray sky…but there are water droplets which make it not quite a simply silhouette.

The second one was on a brighter day. I like the color of the sky behind the silhouetted leaves. The leaves had another week or so to mature making the characteristic ginkgo shape more obvious.

I think I like the one with water droplets best.