Frost

         It was Saturday and I walk by the peach tree early in the morning, to get my exercise in sense football season is over. As I walked by I notice some frost in one of the branches of the tree. I took a closer look and it was not much, but to a point where the sun hits the branch and it shines the frost on it.

It looked like this.

       I wondered why and how frost forms on a tree?. So after school I went to my house and used my computer to search it up. After analyzing one of the sources it said "The dew point is the point where the air gets so cold, the water vapor in the atmosphere turns into liquid. This liquid freezes. If it gets cold enough, little bits of ice, or frost, form. The ice is arranged in the form of ice crystals"(Frost). I never would have realized that frost comes from the water vapor in the atmosphere. This also taught me that their are different kinds of frost not only just one.

These are the types of frost I learned:

Radiation frost is frost in the form of tiny ice crystals that usually shows up on the ground or exposed objects outside. Hoarfrost also forms in refrigerators and freezers.

Advection frost is a collection of small ice spikes. Advection frost forms when a cold wind blows over the branches of trees, poles, and other surfaces.

Window frost forms when a glass window is exposed to cold air outside and moist air inside. Window frost is familiar to winter residents of cold climates. Indoor heat and cold outdoor temperatures form this type of frost. Window frost was much more common before people began using double-paned windows.

Rime is frost that forms quickly, usually in very cold, wet climates. Rime also forms in windy weather. Rime sometimes looks like solid ice. Ships traveling through cold places like the Arctic Ocean often end up with rime covering at least part of the exposed part of the ship.

       

 All of this was from the same source.
       

          This got me thinking of not having a warm home at night. Somewhere one could be sleeping without getting cold at night. I never have experience that and never plan too, but also got me thinking of the people who don’t have a home, who don’t sleep in a home, who sleep in the streets cold and miserable. I could imagine a guy sleeping in the streets with a blanket that has frost and a temperature of thirty degrees at night, It got me appreciating the things i have, and got me in gratitude stage.

          I see what my parents do for me, and what they have accomplished with me. All those needs and wants my parents get for me come out of hard work. I can see myself working just to have a roof where I can live and spend the night comfortably. I really have not showed any gratitude to my parents for giving me everything I got lately. So I think it’s time to show some gratitude to them. Have you shown any gratitude to your parents? It’s funny how a tree could show one the way of having gratitude, by looking at the little things it has to show.

Work Cited

"Frost." - National Geographic Education. Web. 3 Dec. 2014. 

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What I Thought About

                I passed by the peach tree today, but it was dark so I could not take a picture of it. It looked like it had no life; no meaning. The branches were just there, having no leaves, and no peaches just being another bald tree. The old lady might have picked up the leaves in the floor that October took off. But this got me thinking of what is left once one dies.

                 This is how it looked like.

                

               All the memories and life one use to have in the past that in the future is no more. Why is life so cruel? But we live by it every single day, and realize too late that one is aging, and one cannot do anything, but just learn to live with it. I don’t even want to imagine the day I die and how I die. That just accelerates the future of one’s thinking of life. All I know is that the day I die, I try to make the best out of what life throws at me.

               

                It is amazing what one could think about in seeing the stages of a peach tree. It could show oneself about the process in life, and how it relates to oneself. Just by seeing the good and the bad parts of life it help us define the reasons of the good and the bad. And shows us that one just has to learn to live up with what life throws at us.

What Nature Can Do

           Nature is one of those things one can’t stop from being itself. Humans can prevent the outcome, but cannot stop the income of what it offers. Today it was a bit darker than usual, and it was barely six o’clock, so I decided to stop by and record my observations from the peach tree. It had a very drastic look of October to it. Like if someone lighted a torch to the tree and burned only the leaves off of it. I saw them dead and smashed in the ground. It got me thinking of nature, how cruel it could be to the livings things around us?
            It was one of those days when one feels bummed out, and just see the tree it got me in a devastating rage. My mind was just thinking of how one just lives, grows, and then dies in a short amount of time. That’s life right? But then I remember what my grandpa used to say “live life to your potential because you only have one life and no more”. So from now on I’m going to try to do what my grandpa says live my life to my potential. Not by saying that I am going to sky dive from a building, or do any of that crazy stuff, but just enjoy every single little second with my family and friends. Before nature comes and takes everything away like this peach tree I saw today. 

This is how the peach tree was today, and how it was about a month ago. Anyone can really see the difference on how nature impact's the tree in the fall. Just by looking at all the leaves in the ground it makes me very mournful of natures presence.

The Evening I Passed By

The Evening I Passed By

          The evening I passed by I was going to the store called Costco which is three to four blocks away from where the peach tree is. When I pass by the owner of the peach tree was watering her tree, i said "hi" and she smiled back. I looked at the hose and saw water coming out with such force that one could never imagine a tree leave could withstand. It got me thinking of the phrase "little things mater" due to the fact that not only was that leave holding on strong, but it holds on too make something big out of something small. The leaves doesn't just make the peach tree look beautiful, it natures,and feeds the tree again to make something big out of something small. This taught me a lesson that I would never have thought a plain old peach tree could teach me. But out of this comes something bigger.

The Evening Peach Tree

        Today October 3, 2014 I went to go see the peach tree that is located on the corner outside my school. As you might know October is really close to November which makes the leaves of the tree turn yellow, and peaches fall. The smell of ripen peach gets to you when one passes by. I usually pass by around 6:30 p.m. when the sun is touching the peach and it disperses much more quickly and hard. This is what is happening with the peach tree today.