with the bright, tree leave colors, I felt inspired to specifically identify some trees. Around our pond, I know we have evergreens of the spruce, fir, and hemlock varities. We also have plenty of non-evergreen varieties - maples, birches, elms. However, I've never attempted to differentiate between the types of maples or spruces, etc. So last weekend I took some pics and got out my guide. The next day, I took my guide with me and hiked around to the trees of which I had taken pictures. After pouring over pages of tree info, the only thing I definitively achieved was a headache. Ugh. Judging on mostly the leave appearance alone, I'm thinking we have at least three different types of maples, but with the foreign language that is tree anatomy, I'm not even sure what the guide is telling me about the different tree types. I think I'm gonna have to study up on the language over the winter and try some identification again in the spring.
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