Tiny Japanese Maple

This caught my eye when I woke up one morning and looked out the bedroom window, across the lawn.  This is the concrete block wall that seperates our property from our neighbor Judy's property.  The wall is covered in ivy.  These slim branches are from our Japanese maple tree which has seeded itself from the wind blowing whatever is on the tree that propagates itself, across the lawn.  There are two slim branches that come out of the ground.  What grabbed my attention, of course, are the brilliant yellow and orange and red leaves on the same small branches.  They are more dramatic, of course, seen against the dark green background of the ivy.  The last gasp of fall in our yard.