This sprightly little fellow (or lady!) watched me from the safety of the Manitoba Maple tree in the back yard.
A neighbours’ free-roaming cat has the temerity to trespass in our back yard. While we like cats, we like them as inside-only pets. The dogs very much do not like cats. We, and the dogs, pop out at random times to keep kitty guessing, to keep the songbirds, and this welcome guest, as safe as possible.
A Manitoba Maples’ twigs and flowers draw a very open lacework curtain across the sky.
The limbs and twigs of our Manitoba maple contrast a blue, blue sky.
The Manitoba Maple forms a delightful umbrella over the deck, shading us and providing dense cover for songbirds.
A lattice of Manitoba maple patterns my view overhead.
We recently had a terrific thunderstorm with very gusty winds. How this small branch came off the nearby pine tree, came through the dense canopy of the Manitoba maple, and lodged in the crotch of the tree, is a mystery.
After pondering the power that must have been involved I can understand why, when I came home, the dogs were subdued and unusually pleased to see me.
Our Manitoba maple began flowering and I took a few minutes to study and appreciate the flowers’ complex structure.
The wrinkled, wizened trunk of a Manitoba maple.
After last week’s snowfall, these limbs of our Manitoba Maple caught a great deal of the wet, heavy snow, which in turn caught the morning sun. The artistic arrangement also caught my eye,
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