The maples are turning.
9/22/09
Cloudy. Maples are turning. There is a Christmas like quality this time of year as the fall colors begin to unwrap themselves. Some years the colors are vivid and bright, some years they are muted. As far as I know, nobody has ever been able to predict whether it's going to be a good year, or a bad year before it actually happens. It is a mystery.
There is a maple along Route 7 in Salisbury that is quite ordinary in almost every way. It lives in a little depression along the road. It is about 20 feet tall, and actually a little ragged in appearance. I notice it every year because its colors are always a deep, vibrant scarlet, and it's usually one of the first trees to turn. Somehow there is something very comforting in this, almost like the return of Orion to the night skies in autumn.
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