"Scene" Today

Driving back from Anne Levine's house today I spied this glorious Acer Palmatum Japonica (Japanese Maple) and I had to pull right over and snap a couple of photos. This is why I love these plants. For one or two days in the fall they blaze with the most intense color and then the leaves fall off en masse. But for those two days...

This was taken today

This was taken 5 years ago at our home in Brewster, the day before all of the leaves fell off.