The best maple tree ever

They're back!
London, ON
May 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram

There’s a red maple tree on our front lawn that has shaded and protected our home for as long as we’ve lived here. It stands watch over the big rock that our kids clambered over as soon as they could clamber, and it whispers in the breeze just outside our window.

Its leaves are just now bursting into view, casting both color and shade over our little corner of the neighborhood. It felt right to grab a quick snap of the new leaves from underneath, of their impossibly red-backlit tones, before they mature into the brownish red they’ll carry through the summer.

All trees are special, of course, but this one feels somewhat more so because it’s ours. And despite the fact that it’s always changing, always offering up a fresh new tone for those of us on the ground, it is nevertheless always there, always solidly planted right in the middle of our home, of our family.

I haven’t paid as much attention to this tree as it has always paid to us. Consider this photo my first step toward correcting this imbalance.

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