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Sure it's been shot a gazillion times but I still couldn't resist this pile of wet Japanese Maple leaves on the ground in Ballater, Scotland.
Maple trees short before the Big Maple Plain in Tyrol, Austria. This place lies some metres higher, the trees are a bit more colorful than the others.
For me one of the most beautiful places in the Northern Limestone Alps. I love this combination of mountains, plain and wonderful trees. I thought that the trees would be more colorful at this time of the year. See this photo in my stream, 2 years ago, 2 weeks earlier!
The Big Maple Plain (1216 m) is located in the middle of the Alpine Park Karwendel on the Eng Alp in Tyrol, Austria and can be reached only via Bavaria.
The Eng Alp is the biggest alpine pasture of Europe. Here everybody can see how farmers are important for taking care of the landscape. Thanks to their constant care and a regular use of the alpine pastures the big Ahornboden (Maple Plain) can be maintained in perfect conditions. In summer almost 500 cows graze on this alpine pasture.
Some of the maples are older than 500 years and during autumn their leaves show striking colors.
The Alpine Park Karwendel is:
• one of the biggest reserves of the East Alps with its approx. 920 km²
• the biggest nature reserve of Austria
• the biggest reserve in Tyrol (730 km²)
The landscaping maples around my office parking lot are putting on a fiery show for fall.
Private Property, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
1950s vaguely-Hepplewhite maple dresser. My parents got it when my brother and I were little, in the late Seventies or early Eighties, when one of Dad's grad students moved and said it was too heavy to take with him, did we want it? It was hideous but we needed a dresser.
It had a reddish varnish finish that was chipping off. Mom used to call it the "leprosy dresser," and always thought it was ugly. She finally asked if we wanted to get rid of it or fix it up. We voted to fix it. It's solid maple--no particle board, laminate, or veneer--the drawers are huge, and everything is dovetailed. It seemed foolish to get rid of it when you can't get anything nearly that good now for a reasonable price.
So, they had somebody strip it, and then it got a light stain, rubbed polyurethane, and a wax polish. The pull on the bottom right was missing its bail, so we got a new one (it hangs a little lower than the others, but at least we can get the drawer open now). Good as new. Better, actually, than new.
We had a few small saplings growing up through the deck (our deck is about three feet off the ground at its lowest and almost six feet at the highest- our yard is ridiculously uneven). The spouse pulled a bunch of saplings up and one was a maple. We had a little bit of rain that day and I noticed that the water beaded up perfectly.
So, I placed the maple sapling on our (mostly unused) wrought iron patio table and turned the leaves so the underside was up. I figured I'd at least get some dew in the morning. But instead, later that day, it rained. And the clouds were thin enough that the sunlight was bright (creating the shimmer-silver appearance at angles).
I was outside for 25 minutes and thought I'd only been there for ten minutes. I was blissfully unaware of the time and aside from a few annoying mosquitoes, it was grand. I haven't been able to spend a half hour taking photos like that in a long time.