True. They should be red, orange, yellow, and amber..My favorites are yellow with red veins, and orange or red with yellow veins..After drying, very cool iron between wax paper helps preserve the colors, but I still find they lose a lot of fire.
Lizzie’s got a good start there. Now if Ellie can identify the leaves, she and Lizzie will be able to name the trees.MY wife, a master gardener of great skill, could never get me to recognize one from another, try as much as I could.
Nabuquduriuzhur: In Vancouver, vine maples start changing in August. Just when you not only can go to the beach, but actually in the water, they tell you winter is coming. More depressing than nine months of drizzle.
My dad made us a leaf press and we used it a lot. After we left home, my mom continued to use it for the 4-leaf clovers she found. She would place the dried leaves between two sheets of sticky acetate and laminate them; then she’d put them into cards and letters — sending a bit of luck along with her regards. To this day, I have a box of her 4-leaf clovers. They are too precious now to send.
Duck, thank you for the link to Lynn’s interview in yesterday’s comments. I had heard some of this stuff vaguely, some directly from your comments. It is good to see exactly what is the truth behind it all.It interesting to read her comments in the past few years in light of that interview. Her “public” attitude is very different.
nate3766 almost 10 years ago
Hey…she has it right ..remember it’s kindergarten
pelican47 almost 10 years ago
True. They should be red, orange, yellow, and amber..My favorites are yellow with red veins, and orange or red with yellow veins..After drying, very cool iron between wax paper helps preserve the colors, but I still find they lose a lot of fire.
lightenup Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Great time to look these up and learn the different shapes of leaves on the neighborhood trees. She can learn what a maple leaf looks like.
nosirrom almost 10 years ago
This kind of maple leaf?
arye uygur almost 10 years ago
@Pelican47: In Azerbaijan the Fall leaves are pink.
pjclark almost 10 years ago
Here in western Ky. at my place we have ash, hickory, maple, pear, red oak, white oak, willow, birch, chestnut, cedar, and pine.
summerdog86 almost 10 years ago
I dearly miss the Dutch Elms in my neck of the woods.
Can't Sleep almost 10 years ago
Lizzie’s got a good start there. Now if Ellie can identify the leaves, she and Lizzie will be able to name the trees.MY wife, a master gardener of great skill, could never get me to recognize one from another, try as much as I could.
barister almost 10 years ago
Classic.
hippogriff almost 10 years ago
Nabuquduriuzhur: In Vancouver, vine maples start changing in August. Just when you not only can go to the beach, but actually in the water, they tell you winter is coming. More depressing than nine months of drizzle.
JanLC almost 10 years ago
Lynn’s Notes:
My dad made us a leaf press and we used it a lot. After we left home, my mom continued to use it for the 4-leaf clovers she found. She would place the dried leaves between two sheets of sticky acetate and laminate them; then she’d put them into cards and letters — sending a bit of luck along with her regards. To this day, I have a box of her 4-leaf clovers. They are too precious now to send.
JanLC almost 10 years ago
Duck, thank you for the link to Lynn’s interview in yesterday’s comments. I had heard some of this stuff vaguely, some directly from your comments. It is good to see exactly what is the truth behind it all.It interesting to read her comments in the past few years in light of that interview. Her “public” attitude is very different.
jppjr almost 10 years ago
In high school. we had to do a project like that for Biology….that was one I’d rather “leaf” alone.
vldazzle almost 10 years ago
I can recognize the main ones (not sub species or such). Even with birds, I’m sometimes mistaken.