I quite enjoyed the nice weather on my walk to my tree, it was much better than the slipping, sliding and falling I was doing a month ago on all the ice and snow.
The little buds that were growing closely out of the branches have sprouted into their own twigs! I though that this was really cool to be able to notice because it isn’t something that I have seen and paid attention to previously. One interesting thing that I notice was that the upper branches (picture 3) did not yet have these twigs sticking out, they were more similar to what I had seen previously, I’m not sure entirely what could have caused this but I would be interested to find out.
I am very proud of my tree. It is doing a great job growing and I feel an attachment to it. I hope that it continues to thrive throughout its life and grow up into a nice big tree.