Japanese Maple

We had a Japanese Maple at the Grand that I loved to photograph. I never had thought of myself as having a favorite tree, but of course that was my favorite.

We bought our new house in January, and we had no idea what kind of landscaping we would find, since we do not know trees well enough to know them by their trunks and not their leaves (and sometimes not even then). I drove by the new house obsessively that spring between the time we bought it and the time we moved in. I was giddy when the leaves began to come out and I realized that the tree by the front door was none other than a Japanese Maple.