She said she was too old to walk around her garden with him, but he should pick a leaf of any plant that interested him and they could discuss it over a cup of tea.
He stops to coo over a newborn Dartmoor pony foal, to admire the moss and lichen, to search for a rare beetle, to listen in a wood to the warbling of a wood warbler, and to pick a leaf of wood sorrel, the first wild plant he ever tasted.
Occasionally he would stop, and adjust a flower arrangement, picking a leaf, fanning out a bouquet and adjusting his display.
We cracked up each time we looked at her; she looked back at us and deadpanned, "What?" My mother could pick a leaf off the floor of our local nursery, shove it in her pocket and from that leaf, grow a tree in our yard.
If you see fresh planted herbs at the store, smell it or pick a leaf if you can.
Tsui picked a mustard leaf and handed it to me.
I had thought we would at least water but on inspection the soil seemed good to me, moist and crumbly underneath, so we wondered around, pulled a couple weeds, picked at a leaf and sort of said hello.
A week later, Kikan attracted the same conservationist's attention and then picked up a leaf and re-enacted her treatment.
When she was not given the umbrella, she then picked up a leaf and held it over her head, mimicking the person holding the umbrella.
Photographer Aditya Permana said he happened upon a forest dragon lizard in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and managed to capture the moment the little reptile picked up a leaf and held it like a guitar.
