Study in Green: Spring Edition

 My current weaving project is inspired by nature through the seasons. I've made a start on winter, featuring winter colors of browns, gray, and white, but I am looking ahead at spring. My motif is leaves and since both spring and summer leaves are green, I'll need to differentiate between spring and summer greens. Since it's March, I can document the colors of sprouting leaves and new growth in spring. How do the newly sprouted leaves of spring differ from the mature greens of summer? This collection of photographs records my local greens of spring. 

chickweed

clover

day lilies and cleavers

forsythia

honeysuckle (note the new leaves contrasted to the darker old leaves)

pine tree

spirea

I have no idea what this is

an unknown grass

If I were to describe them, I'd have to call them fresh greens. They are lighter color in spring than summer, when they are darker and even brownish if we haven't gotten enough rain. 

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