From Stay Home by Wendell Berry
“I will be standing in the woods
where the old trees
move only with the wind
and then gravity.
In the stillness of the trees
I am at home. Don’t come with me.
You stay home too.”
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I think that is a Gall, perhaps an Oak Gall.
Yes, I think so too Uta. I posted a photo of one a while ago and that’s what a few people told me. Now I see them more often, this one was particularly beautiful. Like a little planet. :)
What IS that on top of the leaf?
It’s an oak gall Sandy. It forms around the eggs laid by a gall wasp. The wasp larve eat the inside of the gall until they emerge as wasps.
I found this on BugKnow….”When a female gall wasp inserts her eggs into a bud, leaf, twig, or root, her secretions hijack the plant’s normal cell development. The tree’s own tissue swells and hardens around the eggs, forming a structure called a gall.”https://bugknow.com/gall-wasp-nest/