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Today's featured Garden Photo is my Maple Tree that's pretty red with seed agasint the green of other trees in the background!
I guess Maple seeds are nicknamed, "whirly birds," because of the way they spin to the ground when they fall. These are the single wing type. Some Maples have double wing seeds.


 

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