Japanese maples in the fall

Unbelievably spectacular jap maple I saw yesterday.

Classily perfect big dwarf Japanese maple I’ve had for years, it has a musical Japanese name... Soto-no-uto or something like that.

‘Seiryu’ Japanese maple, the only cutleaf upright maple that I know of, transitioning from green to leafless, a process that takes two months.

Acer griseum, the number one best maple there is (which of your children do you love the most?).

Unknown cultivar expressing the natural essence of “cloud layering,” an ancient bonsai pruning technique.

Acer emperor 1, the number one best red upright being backlit by the sun on its way to someone’s house.

Acer jap. ‘Katsura,’ the coolest tree on our property. Extremely rare.