I noticed something today while looking through the operating microscope that made me do a double take. We were working on a part of the dura (the covering of the brain) and looking at it under high magnification. We could see all of the magnificent detail magnified 10x. And there was a leaf. Not a real leaf, of course, but unmistakable nonetheless. As we focused in on it, and I moaned about not having a camera attachment, we could see it as newly formed blood vessels. There had been stress to the body at this site, and new blood vessels were forming to help with the repair. This happens as a natural part of the healing process, but I had never noticed the similarity to the most humble of creation, the leaf. Shown above is an example. One of the pictures shows the process of neovascularization in the brain; the other is a detail of a leaf. I think the part that amazes me most is that I’ve seen neovascularization tissue hundreds, maybe thousands of times. And the similarity is, well, striking. But I never made the connection before. It makes me wonder what else I’ve walked by!

Keep an eye out for signs of a Designer in your world—and let me in on what you find!