Tiny red maple blossoms, red and yellow with even smaller red filaments protruding from the flower

Tiny red maple blossoms, red and yellow with even smaller red filaments protruding from the flower

I don't often get to see the red maple blossoms down close to the ground, but all the budded out maple limbs that crashed to the ground a month ago started blooming. I'm making brush piles & dead hedges!
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