Earlier in the week I took this picture
of Mom's japanese maple as it changed colors. It's such
a lovely little tree and goes through all kinds of color
changes from spring's sweet green through the fiery reds,
yellows and oranges shown in the pictures below.
It had been raining and the leaves were
falling off. I grabbed a handful of them and took them straight
home, spread them out on a piece of black velvet and snapped
away.
They are so delicate, in some ways they
look more like feathers than leaves.
