Well, it has happened…most of the leaves have left their trees. Just when we finish raking all the neighbors leaves from our yard, our own tree lets loose its leaves for the winter. Every year it waits till every other tree in the neighborhood is void of leaves before it even begins to let go. I still am not sure what kind of tree it is, but have grown quite fond of it, it is quite a beautiful tree.
This last summer I would sit in my lawn chair and watch the butterflies fly among the branches and drink the sap from the branches. I would watch as the woodpeckers would come and tap tap tap to get the sap flowing again, then the butterflies would go back to drinking the sap. They would do this for hours every day. Wow, what a site!