Acer palmatum

Ahh ... the red maple again. Nice to see you.

Shot in botanic garden Munich.

Maple tree in its fall colors, Guilderland NY

Maple Days is here again! Patrons enjoyed a free sample of Fort Drum maple syrup, maple cotton candy, face painting, bean bag toss and more! This year Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers set up a 'photo booth' and had photos printed and waiting for pick-up after a fun day in the maple grove. If you missed it this weekend you have one more chance, Saturday, March 26 from 10am to 3pm at the corner of 45th Infantry Division Drive and Iraqi Freedom Drive.

there are many varieties of japanese maple (Acer palmatum) that will put out red growth that fades to green in the summer.

This is actually a great plant strategy. The pigments help them fend of predation and scorch, the latter green helps take advantage of the high light summer conditions.

Maple seed pretty and read. As soon as they dry they will float to the ground like litttle helicopters.

Westonbirt Arboretum, South Glocestershire, England

The view from our front porch using a point & click, hence the distance. Raccoons sometimes sleep in the 80+ year old big leaf maple. Scrub jays always let us know when the nook is occupied.

planting fields arboretum

Thorpe Perrow Arbouretum, Yorkshire.

Maple leafs lit by the sun.

Maple Tree

Acer rubrum

Maple Days is here again! Patrons enjoyed a free sample of Fort Drum maple syrup, maple cotton candy, face painting, bean bag toss and more! This year Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers set up a 'photo booth' and had photos printed and waiting for pick-up after a fun day in the maple grove. If you missed it this weekend you have one more chance, Saturday, March 26 from 10am to 3pm at the corner of 45th Infantry Division Drive and Iraqi Freedom Drive.

Morning sunlight on Momiji at Noninji Temple - Hanno, Japan

While I was looking through the maple, I was drawn to the vibrant layers of color.

Maple Loft Kitchen. Stile and rail solid maple upper doors with acid etched glass panels

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She is now 7 weeks old.

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Afternoon light streams through the rainforest canopy to highlight a group of maple leaves, casting their distinctive shadow on the patchily lit and mossy tree trunk.

I love red leaves and its not something we get much of in Montana unlike my childhood home in Pennsylvania. Imagine my delight to see a tree in my own yard turn red...

This photo was one of the Top 50 photos for the Boston.com April Showers photo contest: www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/2009/05/aprils_final_...

October 07, 2013; #52

These men used it as a photo-shoot set-up for passersby.

Fall foliage at Colonial Williamsburg.

Dec. 2006 @Kyoto Japan