Early Fall Maples

Fall 2007 - Volume 11 Number 4

"Early Fall Maples"

photograph

By James P Rathmell, MD

Dr Rathmell is the Director of the Pain Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.

Dr Rathmell is an avid and lifelong photographer whose landscape and botanical

images are available in a number of galleries in Northern New England. "Early Fall Maples" captures

the start of the dramatic color changes in Vermont’s foliage that begin after the first frost

and intensify for several weeks through late September each year before the

leaves fall and the long winter begins.