Monday, November 07, 2005

(Late) Fall Colour.


This picture didn't turn out nearly as nice as I thought it would. This is the tree that caused us to buy this house. Doug was working with the guy who owned it before us and took him home one day. When he saw it, he told the guy to let us know when he was ready to sell. It was about a year, but we got our gorgeous, huge ,Japanese maple. It is so big that I didn't think it could really be a Japanese Maple. One day in the Spring after we moved in, a car came up the drive way, and it was one of the previous owners of the house, she told me that her husband had planted it, and that it was what I thought it was.

The first Fall, we moved in just after the leaves fell off. Last year it did not change colour at all(the weather was really crappy). Japanese Maples get their colour later than regular maples, so we have been waiting and waiting to see if it would this year. It finally did last week, and already lots of the leaves have dropped off. The tree is close to 30 Ft. High and wide. We have another one that we planted, and it looks like it will do well here too.

I know to some people it might seem wierd to buy a house based on the yard, but to us it seems easier to fix the house up, than the yard. Trees like this only come with time not money.