Change Of Plan

After going in for a feedback session, I was told to rethink my idea and to go to the roots of the photo.
I generated some ideas in a spider diagram; here are my notes in list form:

Window;
- Car
- Bus
- Door
- Train
- House

Picture Frame

Background;
- Trees

Rain;
- Sadness
- Watering Can
- Water

Leaf;
- Plant
- Winter
- Autumn > Decay
- Close Up > Lines> Bark > Tree
   Close Up > Lines> Roads> Map

Idea 1:
Lines on the leaves look like roads of a map.
To simulate this, I would need to go to the top of a tall building to photograph a representation.

Idea 2:
Lines of the leaf could represent or link to the rough bark of a tree.
Keeping the theme natural, the image sequence could match in colour and evolve in texture.