Dear Harry Hutapea,This is East 10th Avenue in Vancouver East. Both sides of the street are lined up with mature chestnut trees, tall and majestic to 15 m high. They are deciduous trees, which mean that they are leafless during winter as shown on top photo. I pass by this street every time I do jogging. The trees form a canopy or an umbrella, and feel pleasant whenever I jog by. I took these photos at 2 different times in the last few months:
Top photo was taken last March 2,2007. The trees were without leaves.
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Middle photo was taken from the same spot 2 1/2 months later in May 25,2007. The trees were full of leaves and blooms.-
Bottom photo shows the chestnut tree with it's white blooms.
The blooms will turn into spiny fruits and fall to the ground around November. I picked some of them last year, and inside each fruit there were 2-3 chestnuts. You can boil the chestnuts and eat, or you can also have the "chestnuts roasting on an open fire....." like it says in a Christmas song. But I gave them away to my neighbour.
