Our Two Trees

 Friday, October 24, 2025

Our backyard tree is a red pine which in Minnesota is sometimes called the Norway pine. It's a beautiful tree. We're in the time of year where it really starts to drop it's needles. The above photo was taken from the alley. I'm not sure how old this tree is. 

Range of the red pine. 

Our front yard tree is a silver maple. Last time we had the tree guy out he estimated it was about 100 years old. The leaves have turned to a soft shade of yellow and are dropping slowly but steadily. The above photo was taken just south of our house. 

This is a north facing view of the tree. 

The range of the silver maple. 

I consider the yard as another room of the house. 

October - Enjoying the Back Yard

Sunday, October 2, 2022

It's beginning to look like October. A beautiful autumn day. Low humidity. The light is looking golden. Notice in the picture above how many pine needles our pine tree is dropping. They're hard to get up as they get caught in the tines of the rakes and have to be pulled out. Our hope is to get them up before the leaves fall. However, that's our hope every year. It's easier said than done when busy. 

We've been quite dry lately and need a really good rain. This combined with my being busy with school and not watering like I should has caused our plants to look rather mangy. I gave them all a good soak this afternoon. We'll see if the flowers bounce back. I sure hope they do.

I'm gonna get back on track and keep watering even if the plants continue to get mangy. It can't hurt and they'll appreciate it in the spring.

Dale has heard our pine tree called an Austrian pine and a red pine.