Last Look at Autumn…..part two
The first picture on the previous post was taken on October 18, easily three weeks after the trees had started changing. I really should keep track, even if only to satisfy my own curiosity. The photo below was taken on the 29 when the Maples finally really started to change.
This one was taken on November 2 different tree, different parking lot, but I’m fairly certain they are the same variety.
And yet another red tree in yet another parking lot. I think this may be the tree of choice for parking lots, though ‘October Glory’ gets a lot of use as well.
Having never mastered the traditional foliage shot, I lack both the patience and the proper equipment, I think I might instead document parking lot trees…….
My best guess is that these trees are ‘Autumn Blaze’ an absurdly popular landscaping Maple. What’s a little creepy is they are probably propagated by stem cuttings, which means they are clones, which means that it’s the same tree watching over us in all those parking lots …..a deciduous NSA ( I’ve been listening to too much public radio, I really hope it stops snowing soon).
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In fact they were planted in an NSA initiative code named Arbusto in honor of the previous Presnit
The NSA originally wanted to use Burning Bushes because they are so invasive, but then they realized they propagate by seed so it wouldn’t work……