Climate Changes and My Favorite Tree

Everything has changed since last spring. And when I say everything, I don't just mean our way of life. I mean, everything. And the strangest thing is that the changes are contrary to logic. Just like when we talk about global warming, and the weather is actually getting colder. Now that people have stopped traveling and are not polluting the environment as much as usual, cataclysms have begun.

There have been so many floods and earthquakes in the past year. Earthquakes even in non-seismic areas where I live.

In addition, the weather warmed several times during the winter so that trees and shrubs bloomed. Then these flowers were covered with snow. And let me tell you, there is no sadder picture at the moment than just those frozen and dead bushes in our garden. And what were they guilty of, that they were so deceived by weather?...

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This year I was fully prepared and looked forward to the blooming of the Paulownia trees in our yard.

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I watched them every day and even prepared to take out a chair to step on so I could photograph their beautiful blossoms.

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Until the day I realized that this very tree, whose branches I can reach with a chair, will not actually give blossoms this year.

Because it has already begun to give leaves. And the growth of the leaves follows the blossoms.

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The seed capsules remained on the branches, some fell to the ground, but there were no blossoms.

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And this vital phase was simply skipped.

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The reassuring thing is that there is another tree in the garden. And it is already developing normally:

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And here are the gorgeous blossoms that precede the leaves:

Enabling the bees to do their job. Because the other tree deprived them of this opportunity.

See this beauty:

Do you now understand why this is my favorite tree?

But unfortunately, this particular tree is too tall to be photographed: 😪

See these beautiful blossoms:

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Well, that creates work, of course. Because all these big flowers fall to the ground at one point.

And they need to be swept away.

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But this is also different from last year.

Last year I swept away a bucket every day.

And this year...

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So, everyone is talking about how, if the bees disappear, there will be no life on earth. And what do we do when the blossoms that provide work for the bees disappear?

Just think about it.

And yes, happy Tree Tuesday to all of you, nature lovers!

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