Hyphen Use: Playing with Words and Leaves

On this blog, artist Christoph Niemann names the shapes of leaves. Notice how he uses hyphens to link compound adjectives like "Cloud-That-Actually-Resembles-A-Car Leaf" and "Rob-Blogojevich's-Flair Leaf." According to the OWL at Purdue, the rule is generally to use a hyphen to link words that are brought together to modify a single noun, such as chocolate-covered peanuts or well-known author. Note, however, that you don't hyphenate if you place the same words after the noun: "The peanuts are chocolate covered" and "The author is well known."