Showing posts with label PreK. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Nature Study in the Suburbs


I've noticed two trees out in the front of our townhouse strip that I'd like to identify somehow.

This one looks like a very young pine of some sort.






















Right now, it's sprouting off some sort of seed or maybe something that will turn into a pinecone maybe?  Or maybe it's just some new growth.






















The other one I'm not sure at all.

















The leaf color is similar to that of a red maple, but the shape definitely isn't maple.  But some of the leaves are more of a green color.



















It's also just about finished flowering for the season.
















I did some reading in the Trees field guide that we have, but couldn't find a good match.  So will do some online research at some point and/or ask our next door neighbor.

Need to find a way to involve the girls in this curiosity.  At this point, *I* seem to be the one owning it.  Maybe they'll catch the bug at some point.  Right now, they're more interested in investigating trash laying on the ground.  :-\

Tuesday, April 24, 2012