You stop in a sheltered corner of the path in spring to admire a well-balanced and beautiful landscape composition. Time stretches out with ease as you notice all the different colors and shapes it contains, one by one:

Deeply saturated green pine needles with new cones and candles forming in the foreground.

Reddish-purple Japanese maple catch the sun on the tops of its dense palmate leaves with triangular fingers as they begin their spring growth journey to unfurl, lift and straighten.

Bright, nearly neon-yellow-green fir needles highlight the top background of your field of vision in the form of a young evergreen destined to be taller than all the rest.

All anchored by the white-ish grey and charcoal of a nice big rock standing like a soft-edged statue in the middle, with grey shadows cast by the umbrella of maple leaves above it.