A celebration of life
JAPANESE maples are famous for their autumn colour in the dying weeks of October, a display that is spectacular, if sometimes erratic and short-lived. All the photographs here, however, were taken at quite a different season—April to June—and remind us that leaf-colour in spring is utterly dependable: the worst the weather can throw at unfurling leaves is a light browning by frost. What’s more, those leaves go on expanding sturdily, the colours return and no wind can blow them away.
