Merriam Webster defines Skookum as
✔Marked by strength or power
✔Marked by excellent quality
Now coming to a simple question…
Which is stronger? A leaf or a bud/flower?
The answer is easy-peasy. Is it not so?
The bud is a delicate structure yet to develop whereas the flower is a lightweight structure.
There is no comparison between flowers and leaves in the matter of strength.
The leaf is definitely stronger than bud/flower. Am I right?
But in the image below you can notice how the buds pierce the leaf and bloom into a full-fledged flower.(shallow depth of field is due to result of using 100mm f/2.8 macro lens)
I am also surprised at the shape of the holes in the leaf. More or less they are round shaped!
How is it that they are circular?
I don’t know.

What does this teach us?
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up”
Thomas Edison
Thank you for your visit.
Take care, my friend.
Namaste 🙏🙏🙏
Philo
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✔This post is part of Ragtag Daily Prompt- SKOOKUM
✔Cee Neuner’s FOTD photo challenge
outer appearances can be deceiving
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True my friend
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Well said my friend.
Agree.
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Wow!
This is quite a unique and surprising find 🙂
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Thank you my friend.
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Circular holes from a caterpillar? And a word I have not heard before. I have learnt something new. Thank you
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I am not sure whether caterpillar 🐛 did cause the circular holes or the buds themselves caused the holes in the leaf in the process of blooming.
I felt it’s strange when I noticed, and preferred macro shot since the hole was too small to be seen properly.
Thank you Amanda.
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