Interesting title for a thread, huh? This is a banana tree in my back yard. They are not indigenous to our area, so every fall I have to dig it up and store the root in my garage. Then every spring I re-plant it, and watch it take off. Each leaf stem gives birth to another leaf, and that's how the trunk of the tree grows. Their leaves arrive in a curled up vertical position, and this first shot is looking down into the leaf before it opens.

This worked best in black and white. This is where all the leaf stems meet. You can see how each stem grows from the previous stem.

This is the same leaf in the first shot, just to give you a look at how it arrives! If I'm lucky, bananas in the fall, but our growing season is way shorter than South America, where this tree (I'm sure) would rather be.

I love the first shot, Marshall! What a lovely looking thing you have there. We've a few banana trees in our back yard (which we leave alone most of the time, except when it's banana eating time hehehe) and I've never seen them like the way you showed them here! Interesting POVs, I must say. (The banana trees here are way taller than I am, so this is a new view to me.) (*

Love the first one, a little spacey feeling in it.

yeah like gun...first one is a beauty....

Great pov & wonderful colour in that first one.

Oh I like both of these...my father-in-law has some growing in his backyard, but he lives in the Dominican Republic.

Woohoo, Marshall, that first shot is a really cool view...reminds me of the "Time Tunnell" Everybody now! "Come Mr. Tally-man, tally me banana!..." :-)>

...daylight's come and me wanna go home! :-) (hehehe... sorry, couldn't help myself!)

Michelle starts swinging hips to the rhythym... .......see what you've done Punkie, now I won't be able to get that song out of my head all day!