take a close look…

there’s a lot going on here. there are the bouquets of maple blossoms, and beneath them the stringy unfurling leaves, and beneath them the burst petals of the original buds, and below them the segmented branches with additional buds that will not be leaves but new branches someday. and if you were looking up into this maple tree tonight around dusk you would have seen the first dartings of insects among these blossoms and the darting after those insects of the season’s first warblers. a little closed seasonal world in the top of a single tree.

sugar maple tree blossoms