Watch our Instagram page during October and November for #bigleafportrait posts from our Multnomah Zen and Bike and Hike the Columbia Gorge Waterfalls tours — or make your own! Bigleaf maples, Acer macrophyllum, are one of our favorite trees in the Pacific Northwest forests (which reminds me, someone recently told me “I don’t think that you know how favorites work,” fair point, they may all be my favorite), but when they turn yellow in the fall it is a truly special time — and we can easily see why we call them “bigleaf”! Make yours, tag them, we’ll follow along with glee!