I love the community where I live. It is nice and quiet. Peaceful. Very comfortable, and it is filled with people just like me. 50+ active or disabled, retired or not. It is beautifully landscaped and very well cared for. The one and only thing that I do not like about the location of my home - directly across from the mail center with the only drive in and out visible from my front window - is that we do not have covered parking for all of the apartments. I figure that is an easy compromise to make.
When I first moved here over three years ago, I remember telling my sister that I would enjoy watching the little tree I could see from my bedroom window as it grew. I moved here in December so naturally there were no leaves on the tree. I have watched it grow over these three years, and it is truly becoming a beautiful tree. It is already too tall for me to see from bottom to top from the same bedroom window.
I decided today that every year on May 1 - May Day - I am going to take a new picture of my tree so I can see how it has grown from year to year. Here is the one I took this afternoon;
I will try to remember to take another picture in the late summer before the leaves start falling to show you how pretty it is when it is wearing its complete coat of beautiful leaves.
I am not a botanist but I believe it is an oak tree. I'll let you know for sure when and if it makes acorns.
A while back, management planted a new tree out in front. It is a pine tree and has been responsible for much of the attacks of pollen my sinuses have had to deal with this spring.
It will be fun to watch it grow too.
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I remember you R.D. :o)
ReplyDeleteAn oak it is, possibly a pin oak (they grow very tall)......btw, your neighborhood looks as neat as a.....pin (sorry)
Mark your calendar for the next pic.
Yo! Robnot!
ReplyDeleteI thought it was an oak. If it's a pin oak, will it still produce acorns for the squirrels and other of God's creatures to enjoy?
Yes... I truly love this neighborhood!