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   It's always good to take time off of your regular day and observe your surroundings, because you'll be surprised by the things that nature has to offer you. For me, my apple tree has offered me many rewards and suprises: from eating a delicious sweet green apple to observing birds pick at the apples too. 

  

   Nature is a form of massage that relaxes a person's mind, and lets them forget about other things; like problems for example. According to an article by Scientific American, all kinds of people are used to the same routine almost everyday of their life's, causing for the brain to get used to repetition: which makes a person feel unhealthy, causing them to age faster. (ScientificAmericanInc.) Thats why it's good for people to go out on nature walks and smell the fresh air along with enjoying the beautiful sceneries that nature offers to them. It's a form of therapy that helps people relax and makes them think of peace, instead of stressing out.  

   Research shows that out of all the kinds of trees that there are, fruit trees are the most beneficial towards relaxing the mind of a human due to their fruit and animals that visit them. (Almanac) The article explains that the smell of the fruit and the experience of looking at the creatures that come and visit the tree offers a peaceful space in their brain that helps them relax and forget about any other problems they might have.

   My apple tree has really helped me experience nature as it really is and has helped me relax every afternoon after boxing practice. Doing the same thing everyday can be boring and make you feel older and older as the days go by, atleast that's how I felt until I got the chance to observe my apple tree and taste it's delicious fruit called an Apple. 

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December

   This month (December) as we all know is the month where it's supposed to snow because of Christmas, but up to present day there is still no snow. Every morning this month I wake up and hope that it has snowed, but it just has not happend.

   As I wake up every morning I look outside my window where my apple tree is, I look there to see if there's any snow outside but all I see is a cloudy cold sky with no trace of snow. The other morning as I opend my curtains and looked outside, I observed that the leafs on my tree where shiny, so I hurried up and went outside to look at why it was. Turns out they were frozen, so that made me wonder two things: one, does this mean it's going to snow pretty soon? And two, how do leafs get frozen?

   For the first question, it turns out that I still have been waiting for it to snow, because the weather here in Reno is so crazy: one day it can be as sunny as it can be and another it can be as cold as a refrigerator, which makes it hard to know when it will snow. But I guess it will come as a surprise, if it ever comes. Last year, it only snowed a couple of times and it looks as though this year will be the same. 

   For the second question, I did some research and according to the USDA FOREST SERVICE, the leafs of trees are much more weaker and tender than those of plants and evergreen plants which contain a type of wax that keeps them protected from any type of severe cold weather.(Tackett)

   Throught out these months I have learned so many things from my apple tree. I hope that it eventually snows here in Reno and that my tree keeps offering more surprises like those of the last couple of months. 

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Deciduous or Coniferous

   I've been noticing many things in my tree these past weeks that I never took time to realize and make a differance in the way it looks.

   At the begining of November I thought that my apple tree would lose all of its leafs because the season was turning from autumn to winter, but turns out to be that it didn't loose all of its leafs. It lost a few but not as many to make it look naked. After observing that the tree didn't lose all of its leafs, I found out that it's a coniferous tree, in other words its a tree that doesn't lose all of its leafs.  

   I thought it was like any other ordinary tree that would lose its leafs (deciduous) but it's the total opposite and kept all of its leafs. I was surprised when I found out that it was actually a coniferous tree because I was waiting for all of the leafs to fall off but I was going to end up waiting for ever because it wasn't going to happen. 

   I'm looking forward to see what my tree is going to offer me in the future, but for now I'm still trying to accept that it's a coniferous tree. The next couple of weeks are going to be colder so I will see what's new.