Dancing in the Sunlight. Acer negundo, Boxelder, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
IN 1931 a team of archaeologists led by Earl Halstead Morris (1889-1956) worked in the Prayer Rock Valley, Arizona, on a site once inhabited by Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi). In one of the caves - the Broken Flute Cave - they excavated a set of end-blown flutes dated to 620-670 CE. The instruments had been fashioned from the wood of the Boxelder; it seems they were used in ritual 'Sun Dances'.
This photo shows the male flowers of this Ash-leaved Maple, another name for the tree. It's not native to The Netherlands. It was first grown here in gardens and arboretums. But after about 1950 it became naturalised especially along streams and rivers such as this one on the bank of the Meuse.
Dancing in the Sunlight. Acer negundo, Boxelder, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
IN 1931 a team of archaeologists led by Earl Halstead Morris (1889-1956) worked in the Prayer Rock Valley, Arizona, on a site once inhabited by Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi). In one of the caves - the Broken Flute Cave - they excavated a set of end-blown flutes dated to 620-670 CE. The instruments had been fashioned from the wood of the Boxelder; it seems they were used in ritual 'Sun Dances'.
This photo shows the male flowers of this Ash-leaved Maple, another name for the tree. It's not native to The Netherlands. It was first grown here in gardens and arboretums. But after about 1950 it became naturalised especially along streams and rivers such as this one on the bank of the Meuse.