Week Eleven - Environment Diversity

The first thing that comes to mind when I think about diversity and my little plot of land I call home, I think of the variety of fruit trees we have! Two kinds of apple trees in one (called a combo, or hybrid? - with the tree trunks kind of wrapped around each other to look like one tree), plum tree (they are little mini plums!), grape vines, cherry tree, a newly planted pear tree, almond tree (I've yet to taste ONE almond because of the cursed squirrels!), and my FAVORITE, huge, beautiful apricot tree. I didn't like apricots until I tasted our apricots. They explode with sweetness, and are unbelievably juicy.

We have jasmine growing on our back deck, and on our front walkway. When it blooms, it is the most wonderful "welcome home" you can have after a long day of work and school. And a huge elephant ear plant in front.

One or two other trees/hedges that I don't know the name of, but I love the big oak tree that we almost cut down when we moved in. I'm so glad we didn't, it's beautiful, and the tree cutter guy told us Oaks are one of the best trees for the environment in terms of global warming. 

Other species - our little doggies! A random hummingbird, but not many of those, nor bees - I guess we don't have enough colorful plantlife. Raccoons that are eerily huge.  Squirrels that taunt our dogs for hours on end, a blue bird, and other birds that are our wake-up alarm, ANTS ANTS ANTS ANTS ANTS that invade our house every summer. Severe infestations!! Bats at dusk. Falcons (or hawks?) that hover in the afternoon. A random mosquito in the summer that gets through our screen.