Phenix

After visiting the garden many times over the years this particular trip was plagued with crowds and not being able to find parking for miles around the park. I was forced to park a good distance away from the park and I noticed a set of trees unlike other Japanese maples I had photographed in the past. The peak color had hit on the day of the shoot. The leaves and branches reminded of a Phenix rising out of the flames. 

AP 30

PN 300