Where X Marks the Spot

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With signs of spring everywhere of course, except close to me where I see mostly palm trees and they are the same from season to season. I remembered two trees that stood along the path back in Riga, Latvia that we took when heading for the store. One was an oak tree and one was a chestnut. In the spring when they first started sprouting leaves you could see that their branches formed an X. It was interesting to note this because once the trees were in full leaf you could not see this. They only looked like two trees side by side. When the chestnut started blooming with big white flowers then you could tell that the other one was an oak tree. It was particularly interesting in the wintertime when the branches were sprinkled with snow because it looked like a snowy path leading from one tree branch to another. The oak tree is on the left and the chestnut is on the right