my thoughts turn to the icon of the green man. Leaves eventually turn colors, but I have not yet seen a fall-ish "brown" man before.  Never I mind, for this life is young. This "green man" is among my favorites. The artist is known as Lapinfille, which means Bunny Girl. She crafts arresting images by deft photo-blurring collage. The hair here is feminine but the face is softly androgynous.

Lady Raglan coined the term in the 1930s, but the idea predates written language. Other names for leafy spirits of the woods:

Puck

Jack in the Green

Robin Goodfellow

Will o' the Wisp

Robin of the Woods

------ Snipped from A Midsummer Night's Dream,  Act II Scene I and spoken by Titania:

Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he
That frights the maidens of the villagery;
Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern
And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;
And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;
Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?
Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are not you he?

It is better to help people 

than a garden gnome.

 

 

 The gnome drawn by SRD whose website suggests the author is German. SRD's gnome, like the base for "Zinnia Galaxy" of the previous post, come from the Creative Commons project Open Source Clip Art.

  This image is based on a piece of copyright free, open-source art by this artist . Creative Commons is a new way to share intellectual content and creative output.  I emailed a link to my modification of the artist's file.  Here is a thumbnail of the original. 

Caught just before yesterday's storm.  Lovely soft pink edge and stippling or freckles that are charming rather than detracting.