A female House finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) sits in the maple tree with a male in the background. This is from the same wet heavy snow morning as the previous dove. That snow has melted, another snow and sleet episode has happened and that one is about gone. Roller coaster winter continues.

I approached solo canoe to photography so many on this dead tree yet approximately 50 percent took off afraid of me.

Maple tree seed pods @ Bodnant Garden - N Wales

This is the 4th image of our visit at the Ahornboden, a group of maple trees at the "Kleiner Ahornboden".

Dies ist das vierte Bild von unserem Besuch im Ahornboden, eine Baumgruppe im kleinen Ahornboden.

An American Robin, with its gorgeous red breast stands atop a red brick chimney next to a red clay chimney flue, with a maple behind, its small red flowers opening.

‘A tranquil haven, the house and grounds remain secluded from the outside world and one of the most magical locations in England’ www.porteliot.co.uk/gardens

Port Eliot is the ancestral home of the Eliot family, Earls of St Germans. The house has roots as ancient as the 5th century AD, making it one of the oldest buildings in continuous habitation in the UK. In the 18th century Port Eliot House was constructed around these earlier remains.

In the early 18th century, the Eliot family decided to create a park in keeping with their wealth and status. They dammed the estuary, diverting the watercourse, and built a winding drive two miles long to follow the water's edge. The drive winds through carefully designed parkland before you emerge to find a stunning view of the mansion side by side with St German's Priory.

In the late 18th century, the house was remodelled again by Sir John Soanes. Around the same time Humphry Repton was laying out the surrounding landscape gardens and park.

Adapted from www.britanexpress.com/attractions

Seeds on my Maple tree.I loved to throw them in the air and watch them spin when I was a kid. In fact, I still do. :-)

Early spring along the Big Quilcene River.

Roof tiles are often reused inside walls or to create patterns in gardens. Recycling FTW!

More pictures of Kyoto 京都.

Autumn colours on Lake on the Mountain in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.

a u t u m n awesomeness!

A gray and foggy afternoon makes a fine backdrop for this beautiful and gnarly old maple tree.

52 in 2021, #43: A lone tree

I saw this Yellow-rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata) flitting around the pond and maple tree. I only got one 'flight' shot where its rump showed but I'm fairly confident of the ID now. Between yesterday's Brown creeper and this, spring migration is happening.

Shot in my local park

Spotted this beauty on our Sugar Beach.

Much is going on for me here with our new book just released and the next origami adventure ahead. Will post about it next week, for now it's time to relax and enjoy autumn colours :-)

The Leuty Lifeguard Station on a beautiful fall day in the Beaches, Toronto, Canada.

Planted as a memorial to Canadian servicemen killed during both world wars

Fall colors on the Japanese Maple Tree at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC.

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Epiphytes, a new word for me, found while searching google to describe a term for plants growing on other plants. "Epiphytes, or plants growing on other plants -- mosses, spike mosses, ferns and lichens festoon tree trunks and branches, giving the forest a "jungle-like" feel. Here, deep in the forest an old big leaf maple tree hosts life of moss and small ferns, the life cycle of plants. Photographed at Hatley Park National Historic Site, near Victoria BC Canada.

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it takes my breath away

forest l a n t e r n s

I was quite obsessed with this tree back in the late 1980's. I was lucky enough to catch it after a freezing rain one morning or as Cape Bretoners call it, 'Silver Thaw'. This tree lived just off Mira Rd. in Sydney back in the day. I'm not sure if it is still around, but it was a beauty. It was photographed using a Minolta Maxxum 9000 using Kodachrome 64. I asked Mama not to take my Kodachrome away...but alas.

A maple blazing with it's fall colours, along the banks of the Irvine Creek, Centre Wellington, Ontario.

from a trip to Westonbirt Arboretum, the colour of the Japanese Maples is astonishing. HSS and have a happy week everyone!

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Plumes swaying in the cold autumn breeze.

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Colorful reflection in Autumn of the very calm modene lake in La Mauricie National Park, Quebec, Canada.

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Big Quilcene River

Maple trees in a park on the shore of Lake Ontario in Prince Edward County. It was the custom many years ago to plant up to six saplings in the same hole to produce this type of large maple tree.

Took this autumnal picture on a beautiful Autumn morning at the national trust property Sheffield Park in Sussex.

Start of Fall in the Big Quilcene valley.

Sap house where the volunteer's boil the sap until it is reduced to maple syrup. Around 40 gallons of sap,,,sometimes 20 to 60 gallons of sap, are evaporated down to one gallon and a 67% to 68% sugar level is reached. Volunteers at Pioneer Village at Caesar Creek Lake burn firewood to boil the sap. The syrup is used in a fund raising pancake breakfast. A lot of hours and a lot of work.

“If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

Early fall color along an Olympic National Forest road.

Thank you to everybody that views, comments and favours my images. Always greatly appreciated.

Thank you to everybody that views, comments and favours my images. Always greatly appreciated.

Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.

Maple Leaf stuck on a milkweed bush.

--Jesse Jackson

Here's a forelorne little fellow. I think he got left behind by his buddies. He's the only one that is still around. A sad looking American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)

January maple trees, and patches of unsubmerged ground in the flooded river.