Tree of the Month

The Almond Tree
Scientific term-Prunus amygdalus
A smaller tree (grows up to 15 ft.)
Purple-colored bark
Dark Green leaves with a narrow, toothed point
Blossoms bright pink flowers

A good resource for more info on this tree is: 
Trees of the World
By Sandra Holmes

Poem of the Month

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
and often is his gold complexion dimmed;
and every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shalll not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 


Written by Shakespeare