I spied the first spring beauty of the year on Feb. 20, the same week a Northern flicker started drumming on our metal chimney, the week of budburst for our red maple sapling and our young red ...

However, long ago the early pioneers, mesmerized by the beauty of this tree in the fall of the year, brought Red Maple saplings from the woods to plant on the old homestead.

Buy It: Bareroot Red Maple Tree, $18.99, Arbor Day Foundation Those maple flowers turn into those propeller “spinners” that twirl down to the ground in the spring. Called samaras, the spinners ...