Pancake breakfast at The Wild Center where visitors learned the methods of maple sap harvesting and production. And they tasted the sweet results of those efforts on homemade pancakes.

looking up through.

Colors of calm and gentle peace are what caught my eye. Japanese Maples have their origin in Japan, frequently seen around Buddist Temples.

Middletown, CT

Green maple leaves in city park in the spring afternoon

Seeing some early colors in the vine maples already.....

my neighbor's Japanese Red Maple. Just love the colors!

Also known as the "Coral Bark" Japanese Maple due to the bright coral-rose color on the young stems in winter. Midsummer color, pictured here, is lime-green.

Japanese Maple? Or Alien Monster?

Taken 5/15/2012 | Pentax K20D | Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro | f/8.0 | 1/125 sec | ISO 100 | Aperture Priority Mode | Hand Held

At Brantwood

There's a double row of maples in Westmoreland Park. When I visited here last week, just two of them were in fall color, while the rest were not quite ready.

Portland, OR

Orange maple trees in the fall.

Two personal favorites here: the yellow-green color of the tiny maple leaves and flowers, and the lacy quality on the trees at this time of year.

Take a Class with Dave and Dave : High key. The "key" of an image describes the nature of the tones presented. In a High key image most of the tones will be brighter than middle gray. Bright background, bright subject, and the dark tones take on a supernatural power to highlight what you want to show.

These maple keys were the most gorgeous vivid red this fall.

Now only the stems are red.

great color of autumn leaves.

Great colors on the Japanese Maple outside my parents house.

Taken in Fushoushan, Taichung

Japanese Maple at the japanese Garden in Portland OR during fall

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Canadian autumn colours.

足利公園 Ashikaga Park

Japanese maple near sunset

Maple Syrup 17

Study of maple leaf with photo-editing effects.

HBW