Greens Along MD Route 50

MD Route 50 West

I am down to the last days of commuting to work in Maryland. Soon we will be moving to Colorado, and be experiencing life on the western edge of the Great Plains. Since the first spring after moving here in the winter of 2006, the range of greens that appear here in the Mid Atlantic region are striking as trees change from barren stems to dense canopies that reach down to the ground. There is a greater range of colors in spring, than the yellows, oranges, and reds in Autumn.

Spring tree leaf color pallet

A few days after a particularly beautiful morning, I pointed by camera at stands of trees that lined the Maryland State Route 50 freeway to catch some of the hues of green. Pasting one of the pictures in Power Point, I sampled the some of the greens that combined defined the sweet gums, eastern red cedar, honey locus, white ash, American beech, and many more found across the state. The boxes of colors are a finite set of the many colors from this natural pallet.