Just Like Magic Take a look at the bare branches outside your window. Consider what's about to occur. Read naturalist and author Annie Dillard's description of leaf-out below, then see if you can capture the magic in your own words. There's a real power here. It's amazing that trees can turn gravel and bitter salts into these soft-lipped lobes, as if I were to bite down on a granite slab and start to swell, bud, and flower.
Trees seem to do their feats so effortlessly.
Today is maple tree tapping day in Vermont and Minnesota. Please include the name of your school and your location so we can credit you properly for your answers.