Water loving bigtooth maple by the creek

Fall color at Lost Maple State Natural Area

I absolutely love Japanese Maple trees. I hope to have one in my front yard again one day :)

Maple Sunset

Image taken in Lost Maples State Natural Area

Accommodation: Maple Bank

Type: shared facilities

Catered: Self-catering / Meal plan

Situated at the top of the Vale Village, Maple Bank comprises 87 flats providing accommodation for 435 students offering either self-catering or Meal Plan options. Each flat has five study bedrooms plus a shared kitchen diner, bathroom and toilet facilities. This hall does not have car parking spaces.

For further information, as well as virtual tours of our accommodation, please visit our Accommodation page.

Pentax K-1, Accura Diamatic 135/2.8

Acer platanoides. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA

Not all leaves are red in the fall

Outside Nordstrom in Oak Brook

Seen on our walk

Near Lake Mukoka, Ontario

Traditionally, maple syrup was harvested by tapping a maple tree through the bark and into the wood phloem, then letting the sap run into a bucket, which required daily collecting; less labour-intensive methods such as the use of continuous plastic pipelines have since superseded this, in all but cottage-scale production.

Production is concentrated in February, March, and April, depending on local weather conditions. Freezing nights and warm days are needed in order to induce sap flows. The change in temperature from above to below freezing causes water uptake from the soil, and temperatures above freezing cause a stem pressure to develop, which, along with gravity, causes sap to flow out of tapholes or other wounds in the stem or branches. To collect the sap, holes are bored into the maple trees and tubes (taps, spouts, spiles) are inserted. Sap flows through the spouts into buckets or into plastic tubing. Modern use of plastic tubing with a partial vacuum has enabled increased production. A hole must be drilled in a new location each year, as the old hole will produce sap for only one season due to the natural healing process of the tree, called walling-off. Maple sap is collected from the buckets and taken to the sugar house; if plastic tubing and pipelines are used, then the pipelines are arranged so that the sap will flow by gravity into the sugar house, or if that is not possible, into holding tanks from which the sap is pumped or transported by tanker truck to the sugar house.

Maple syrup is sometimes boiled down further to make maple sugar, a hard candy usually sold in pressed blocks, and maple taffy. Intermediate levels of boiling can also be used to create various intermediate products, including maple cream (less hard and granular than maple sugar) and maple butter (creamy, with a consistency slightly less thick than peanut butter).

Rhodadendron Test Garden, Portland, Oregon.

Acer platanoides. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA

Maple leaves in the forest. Don't know how the background became like that...

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1000 sq foot installation of comb 2.25 and 3.25 stained maple hardwood in Willowgrove

Maple tree in full autumn glory.

It's that time of the year - AGAIN.

The supermarkets are already pushing ginger-bread and all sorts of wintry food stuff into our guts.

Japanese Maple

Evening light adds a golden tint to the early spring foliage on a hilltop of Alyson's Orchard in Walpole, NH

Japanese Maple Flowers

Kingston Mills, ON, trees along the Rideau River, detail

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View On Black

Section 40 Row D Seats 4,5 and 6 from Maple Leaf Gardens. Top row of the golds right behind the net at the North end near "Ballards Bunker"!