176/366: Scale Invariance

Again, random and artsy, but this tree in the garden behind the Reamer Campus Center at Union struck me as interesting:

A very symmetric tree, looking a lot like the veins in  a leaf. A very symmetric tree, looking a lot like the veins in a leaf.

Is sort of looks like one of those pictures you sometimes see of oblong leaves where most of the surface has been eaten away, just leaving the delicate vein structure in place. (This kind of thing.) At least, that's what it looked like to me, and why I took a shot of it.

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