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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