10.20.07 CRASH OF COLOR

It has happened, and literally overnight. The maples and the tulip poplars have burst into color adding a raucous visual noise to the landscape. The blazing oranges reveal that there are more sugar maples, Acer saccharum, around here than I thought. Deep reds from red maples, Acer rubrum, and brilliant yellows from the tulip poplars, Liriodendron tulipifera.

10.01.07 MAPLE MADNESS

The sugar maples, Acer saccharum, in town are beginning to reveal splashes of the color they are so famous for. This tree does not grow as well in our forest as other maples, so it is more often seen as an ornamental planted in lawns and gardens.