Compass Point

Background: On Sunday, there was a lone little leaf on the second or third step up to our sanctuary/auditorium. It was there first thing in the morning as I went up the stairs from Sunday School classes to the church auditorium. It must have stuck to someone's shoe departing from its place on the walkway outside under our two huge round maples in the front of the church, and to then deposit itself on the step inside. I came down a different set of steps after the service and forgot about the leaf. Like, who remembers leaves anyway? But in the evening, arriving for choir practice before the evening service, I went up the same steps. And there it was. Untouched by feet. People must have gone around it or over it because it was on the same step and in the same position as in the morning. I had to stop and take its picture. It was just fairly begging for a photo shoot. It was a little more dried than it was in the morning, but still a vibrant reddish oran