RHH's photos with the keyword: acer

Taken while hiking the Avalanche Lake trail in Glacier National Park on a wet morning.

Photographed in Manito City Park in Spokane in the Japanese Gardens there.

Maple leaves photographed in Manito City Park, Spokane

Taken in the Nishinomiya Tsutakawa Japanese Gardens in Manito City Park, Spokane.

Another tree often found growing with the Redwoods is Big Leaf Maple, one of the iconic trees of the Pacific Northwest. This Big Leaf Maple foliage was photographed along the trail to Stout Grove in Jedediah Smith State Park.

Photographed in the The Ravines, a park in western Michigan, while hiking there with family members. The tree is Acer negundo or Box Elder.

These are the flowers or seeds of a tree which I believe to be the Box Elder. They were photographed in Millennium Park along the Grand River in Michigan. I do not even know if they are a native tree but would assume so.

The four photos here, this and three insets, are all of spring growth on trees including flowers, seeds and catkins. These are the flowers of a Norway Maple, not a native tree, but I do not know what trees the others represent, however, and have neither the resources nor opportunity to try to identify them, since they were all photographed in Michigan and we, of course, live in Washington. In fact, I am not home now but in western Washington and have to lead a field trip a little later today for the Washington Native Plant Society. If anyone recognizes these trees I would appreciate the help.

I promise I won't post too many more photos from the Hoh Rainforest. This one is of a Big-leaf Maple almost entirely covered with moss.

Taken in Lake Padden Park on a spring hike, these are the emerging flowers of one of our distinctive native trees, the Big-leaf Maple, Acer macrophyllum.

No, the colors are not changing here yet. This was taken last October in Wallace Falls State Park while we were hiking there. The yellow leaf is the leaf of one of our native hardwoods, the Bigleaf Maple, Acer macrophyllum and the spots are caused by a fungus very common on the leaves of these trees, the Tar Spot Fungus, Rhytisma punctatum.

Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

Vine Maple (Acer circinatum)

Taken on a walk with my wife near our home. Most of the leaves are down now as a result of the wind and rain we've had, but we had several weeks of spectacular autumn color. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2011/12/autumn-afte...