The littlest of leaves...

White ash

I've so enjoyed watching all the buds leaf out this year. Each species has its own way of opening up to the warm spring weather - they unfurl, burst, surreptitiously emerge, bolt, elongate, crack, pop, and slither open. What a joy to watch.

Common buckthorn

Speckled alder

Sugar maple

Basswood

Maple-leaf viburnum

Striped maple

Green ash

White pine

Bitternut hickory

Staghorn sumac

Glossy buckthorn