Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) a tree that I only find further up in the higher elevations where I hike. With the exception of the ones that have been planted here in the vicinity of my cabin. They prefer the cold that the higher elevations provide.

These trees can have a very long life. Two hundred years, three hundred years, maybe even, with luck, four hundred years.

Autumn color from one tree to another is not all the same. The leaves turn various shades of yellow, orange and red. Some branches doing their own thing, turning color well before the rest of the tree.

I admire that. Listening to its own drummer.

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