Japanese maple samaras

Jappanese maple samaras have a reddish tint.

Angles of maple samaras

The Norway maple samaras stick out to the side

while the boxelder samaras hang downward.

Cedars along the canal

Regarding the "cedars" of the cypress family, The Sibley Guide to Trees says "Despite the fact that botanists classify the wild forms as species in different genera, identification of cultivated trees is very challening, where a mixture of hybrids and cultivars tends to obscure the relatively small differences between the species."

If I had to make a guess, I'd call this a northern white-cedar.  But, I tend to just call the trees cedars and the shrubs juniper.

There were rows of these trees along the canal in Waterford.  They were there as cultivated plants, not wild, so they could be anything.

One thing that I noticed was that the trunk split not too far up, so from there upwards, it was like there were two trunks.  Branches grew off the south side of the trunk on the south side, and off the north side of the trunk on the north side, so each trunk had branches growing off only one side.

Big sycamore leaf

At Peebles Island, near the start of the path, there is a large sycamore which I have photographed in the past. This time, I found leaves on the ground below it that were bigger than my foot.

Mulberries

Berries are coming out on mulberry trees.  I saw them first on the way to work on June 17.  

And then June 19 at Waterford:

Reddish samaras on the sycamore maple

Most of the trees have lost their flowers, so I was drawn when I saw a reddish tint on a sycamore maple.  It was not flowers but samaras.

I took another picture that shows some of the loveliness of the rest of the tree:

Bob's tree

It looks like the tree they planted for Bob is a crabapple.

It was blooming on May 17.

By June 15, the flowers were gone and fruits were emerging.

Spruce in spring

I like the way you can see the new spring growth on this spruce.

A few trees still have flowers

For the most part, the trees are green with leaves, and the flowers on trees have been gone for weeks.  However, there are a few trees that still have some flowers, including:

Hawthorn:

Catalpa:

And there was a tree that I did not know, so I photographed flowers, leaves, and trunk so that I could look it up:

It has opposite leaves, so there aren't that many things that it could be.  I went through the list at http://sibleyguides.blogspot.com/2009/10/trees-with-opposite-leaves.html and googled photos of each kind, until I came to one it seemed to match, which was Japanese tree-lilac.

The birds have been enjoying the shadbush

Bob told me that these trees are shadbush.  Other names for shadbush include serviceberry and juneberry.  Lately I have been seeing finches, cedar waxwings, and sparrows in these trees.  Perhaps they are enjoying the fruits which recently emerged.

Fluffly white stuff

I saw some fluffy white stuff floating through the air.  It was like what dandelions get, but it had to be from a tree, not dandelions, because there was so much of it and it was so high in the sky.  Then I saw a bunch of it on the ground below a cottonwood tree, and I realized, that's what tree it came from.  And, that's why they call it cottonwood.