onions will give you galls
... i see you gentlemen have got quite the mileage out of this thread.
as an update i will offer this... tom is correct as that is my left thumb because there is no way i could work the camera thingy with my left hand, i also believe that is/was a dogwood leaf. to top it off with as i was raking leaves,leafs ,lief from around the porch yesterday in order to burn them. i ran accross this very leaf that i must have laid up on the table saw only to have it blow off. what are the odds of finding it twice like that.
i tore into the green coccoon/gall thingy with my apparentley offensive short nailed left thumb. only to find it did have some sort of insect life inside. they resembeled spiders, so much so that i flipped them imediatly into the pile of burning liefs,leaves, leaf. however i do not suspect any of them being from iceland or green land.
