Try linking to the page rather than the image.

HTH
Chris

Here's the page with the image...

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:151462}}

Or try this link, that one might not work for people who aren't members of another site...

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:151463}}

Red maple.

I don't recall a typical maple-style leaf, but from everything I'm reading, this must be a maple. Now that the snow is melting today, I went out & found on the ground some very deeply cut, lobed leaves that look like the images I've found online of acer saccharinum, silver maple. Guess I'll have to wait & see what the flowers look like to know for sure!

Hybrids between the two are commonly planted. Some of these are more like the silver maple in leaf. However, it wouldn't explode my head if it turned out to be a silver maple instead.

Actually those ARE the flowers, although they're not quite open. Those are the tips of the anthers peeking out of the buds of the male flowers, I think. Not sure if they're Red or Silver, though. They grow in the same kind of habitats, although in the wild the red are a lot more common. Down here in northeastern NJ the Red maples are in bloom now.

Red Maple Flowers

Silver Maple Flowers

WW

Definitely more like the silver maple in last link, but as previous one showing red maple says the sex of the flowers (and thus the structure) of that one varies. Some here are small and tight in flower and others are large and loose (this also varying with stage of development). Wholesale nurseries even promote certain male red maple cultivars as being more showy in flower than usual.

Since the flowers being asked about weren't bright red I did wonder from the start if it might actually be a silver maple instead, but the color of red maple flowers (as well as the shape) does vary. Recently I walked beneath a flowering tree that had green flowers yet otherwise looked like a red maple rather than a silver. The frequency of the hybrid Freeman maple in plantings adds to the possibilities.

Whether hybrid or pure, it's helpful information regardless. Having maple leaves in my garden can only help my woodland natives. :) (Also a good sign that earthworms haven't gotten them all over the winter.)

Thanks for the help!