While they can make it painful to walk around the yard barefoot.

Oct 13, The catalpa tree sheds the large green leaves all year in heavy breezes. In fall or after a drought, one or two trees can completely bury a yard in gigantic brown leaves.

Some oak trees are sturdier than others.

They also shed twigs and bark, and in the spring, those pretty white flowers explode across the lawn, making it look as though a Styrofoam bead factory exploded on your grass. THE FALLS Burr Falls is a foot chain of cascades that skip and step their way down a brook on the eastern edge of Burr Pond State Park.

Hundreds of people drive by these cascades daily, but few bother to stop since the site has not been developed into a formal rest-stop. Apr 13, If you watch a maple samara falling from the tree, it spins, swirling to the ground as it falls; this is why many people call the seeds of maple trees names like helicopters or whirlybirds.

A maple tree can drop hundreds of samaras in one spot. The samara is made up of a wing made of papery tissue which is attached to a nutlet that encases one stumppruning.barg: burr.