Featuring Red, Red Maples

This maple at corner of Hwys O and U can be relied upon to turn red every year.
Another vividly red (red-orange) maple on the county line on Hwy FF and Church Road.
This maple "bush" grew in a ditch on a little lane north of Hwy 8 -- probably in Price County.
The collage/kaleidoscopes at the top were created from this shot.

The two above are "Gassner's Hill", a half mile west and south of home.

Autumn's Beginning in Marathon County

The Virginia Creeper vine had intensely red leaves on Sept. 10. There are 3 views above, and below are 3 of the kaleidoscopes that resulted:






These "silo sunsets" have the effect of the sun shining through the silo, but it's all a function of a reflection from my window back to the silo, back to the camera . . . Only could happen on the autumnal equinox (Sept. 20 - 21), when sun is straight west of us.