My ash tree might be slightly confused.
Although leaves appropriately dropped during autumn’s abcission, I assumed it would lie fallow and stay calm until springtime, but that’s not what’s been happening.
This particular tree seems to be on its (his/her?) own schedule or maybe the mild weather is confusing the internal timeline, because in the last two weeks, it flowered, dropped the flowers, and is showing all new green leaves. In January!
Read about abcission HERE:
https://enchantedseashells.com/2020/11/20/the-process-of-abscission/
And then the flowers fell…
Covered in bright green newly birthed leaves.
If you listen very carefully, you will hear the buzzing of hundreds of bees who love the little flowers. We peacefully co-existed.
We might get a bit of rain next week and the temperature won’t stay as summery warm as we’ve been enjoying; I wonder what my ash tree will do?
Here she is, in all of her glory. (I decided she gives off intense fertile divine female vibes; definitely not an “it” nor male, for sure.)
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud 
Wow! When does this usually happen in your neck of the woods? I’m still getting used to spring beginning in March as opposed to April/early May in northern New England. I was really surprised one year when gypsy moth caterpillars ate most of the new leaves off some of our maple trees one spring. And the trees put out another set of leaves. Just blew my mind.
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If I remember correctly, it should be more like March; this is VERY early and we’ve also had hardly any rain, and we usually have had a few inches by now. Def different than New england!
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