Thanks Joshua! I really appreciate your comments.
It's funny with the maple leaf pics, I preferred the second one, so I'm fascinated to hear your preference, and reason. I was trying to get four elements of the maple together in a good composition,;the mature bark, the young bark, twigs and leaves... but I almost deleted all the pics I took because I felt the twigs distracted too much. Nice to have another perspective!
I'm going to try re-framing the Alyssum.
