The red maple has now bloomed out of its bud stage and is now showing greenish red leaves and “helicopters”. The very ends of the stems were still red, but most of the stem has dulled.

Conveniently, I was already planning on going back home so it was no trouble to return to my red maple sapling. The buds had developed a lot since I’d last seen them, and some even had flowers starting to peek through, but there weren’t enough to where I would call the tree flowering. The flowers …

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