Oh hi, it's just Guinness here. My dad has an old farm expression that says the snow won't come til the swamps are all full.
So he means that the snow won't stick around until all the little ponds, and all the little streams and brooks are full, and the ground is saturated with water.
GACK! LOOK! Do you recognize this place? It is one of our cow pastures. See the pole behind me?
See where the river is SUPPOSE to be? See the pole?
And all our pasture has turned into a Lake. Good thing the cows are in the barn and not out to pasture. One year this happened and all the cows got stuck on one little tuft sticking out! haha!
So I don't know what you may think, but I'M betting on snow pretty soon!
Guinness here. I want to show you something.
This is a Pine Tree. See how the needles are LONG?
Well, when you LONG for something, you PINE for it. So that is a good trick to remember the pine tree.
And this is a FIR tree! See how the needles are FLAT? FLAT and FIR both start with 'F'. And that is how you remember the fir tree!
And this is a Spruce tree! At first it is hard to tell it apart from the Fir tree.
But look close. The needles go all the way around the branch. They don't lie flat and smooth. See? I do not have a good trick to remember the Spruce tree--maybe you can think of one?
Can you tell what these two trees are? If you said Pine and Spruce then you are right!
And all these trees produce CONES so they are CONIFEROUS trees! And they all have needles and not leaves--so they are SOFTWOOD trees!
Now, there is just one more kind of tree you need to know about....
................................................The Charlie Brown tree!
