We have had hot smoky weather for the past two weeks with all the fires burning in our area. It is very unusual for the wildfires to start so early but my husband says that the fuel in the forests is so dry that it doesn’t take much to get it going. We had several dry lightning storms and two weeks ago we had extremely high winds. All these factors together make for extreme fire danger.
We have been enjoying our outdoor time both in the garden and out on hikes in our local area. First of all though, here is my son’s summer tree study.His tree doesn’t look that much different from our last study. There are lots of green leaves which my son thinks are darker than they were in the spring but it is hard to tell.
Here is a close up of the leaves.This time he measured around the trunk and found it to be 28 inches in circumference.
This is what he noticed had changed the most about the tree. It had these sprouts coming up from the bottom of the trunk. We usually snap these off as they sprout but my son wants to leave them just to see how they grow.
We are anxious to compare our summer tree with our autumn tree!
Your tree study is just great! Our tree hadn’t changed that much since the last time we looked at it, either.
Re – the germinating beans – no, we didn’t soak them first. However, we did put some in our airing cupboard (warm and dark) and they are germinating!! Might do an update posting about it this week.
~Chrissy