Week #5

Chilly. The trees are indicating the presence of fall by their bright colors. Trees in my backyard are yellow and some of them even red or purple. The wind is blowing them all down so our lawn is covered with dry leaves. I love stepping on them because they make that crunchy noise. I used to do it when I was a kid and I still do it... Moving on.

Dry leaves on the lawn

I would like to take a moment to talk about the tree with purple leaves because I find this interesting. According to my research it is a purple leaf plum. I haven't seen any fruits on it since I am living here, but I really want to see it in spring. "Fragrant pale pink to almost white flowers blossom in early spring before the leaves emerge, attracting bees." ( http://treegrowersdiary.com/plumfacts.html )

Trees with yellow and purple leaves

On Saturday I went outside to sit on the porch. It was quite windy. And actually the weather that day was inconsistent. I've noticed part of the sky that was blue with pretty white clouds and other part of the sky was full of dark gray clouds. That looked very unusual and interesting. It seemed like if the sky was warning us that the weather is going to change. Few hours later it was dusty and windy outside, the sky was completely gray. I hoped that it will rain but it didn't.

Grey clouds and the blue sky

On Sunday I saw a bunch of quail. They make me laugh because they walk really fast and funny. My host dad told me that they used to throw some bird seed outside and quail would come in flocks and peck it all. The quail got used to it and came to the same place at the same time every week and wait for seeds. Smart birds!






 Julie Walton Shaver. Julie's tree blog. treegrowersdiary.com. N.p., 10 Apr. 2006. Web. 14 Dec. 2014.