Leaf-by-leaf, our deciduous trees are slowly revealing their intriguing inner selves and provoking our imaginations.
Above, you see a young, glowing red maple, standing straight and true and silhouetted stylishly in the October sun, seemingly daring us to stare at her. Below, you’ll see a very old, seemingly aching, Camperdown elm bending to keep shading her assigned graves from that same sun, while no longer being able to hold her leaves well:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on October 9, 2025.)