1.   The apple trees are just beginning to blossom.

2.   Once more the trees began to close in, locking them into their own tiny world.

3.   And when temperatures rise in winter, the trees begin photosynthesizing and losing water.

4.   And when temperatures rise suddenly in winter, the trees begin photosynthesizing and losing water from their thousands of flat needles.

5.   As the trees begin to lose their leaves, towering oaks drop acorns by the thousands.

6.   At Olancha, Joshua trees began to appear along the highway, and off in the distance I spotted a burro.

7.   Because we had two weeks of warm weather, elm and ash trees have already begun to leaf out.

8.   However, scientifically and simply put, trees do not begin producing fall color, as many believe.

9.   The cherry trees have begun to blossom with the coming spring, but in agricultural fields that have no one to till them, the thaw coaxes only weeds.