Sunday, October 6, 2013

Pine trees

Pine trees are called evergreens and I ask myself why? When in reality they lose their needs just like leaves of a deciduous tree. Well, OK that may be over generalizing. What I do know is that I am constantly raking pine needles.  So today while I was raking I started to ponder the idea of why are they consider to be conifers.  In my head I instantly made a Venn diagram.  I instantly have a thought about how school has taken over my life. 

As I rake and the piles stack up, I start to imagine the needles multiplying as I rake. I raked off the deck which has a total of two pine trees one on each end. I must have gotten three wheel barrows full. Last month when I swept the deck there were just a few. Where do these needles come from? The trees are still full of green needles and the deck seemed to have needles that are brown in color. 

With each wind storm between now and spring more dead needles will fall. When spring comes the trees will produce new growth and needles and without ever losing all there needle. However, the tree is always green: thus, the reason for their classification as conifer trees.   


While this blog is a bit boring and rattles on, I am trying to force myself to write. When I force this is what you get.  

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