I wonder what it is like strange braided sandals, and maybe a mesh columns? You can even decide that it is weird caterpillars or even long pineapples from distant countries.

In fact, these are the usual birch earrings that appear on these trees in early spring, when the street is cold and everywhere is snow.

I've always wondered how it happens that even in the middle of a harsh winter birch suddenly begins to prepare for warm weather. The fact is that small, very smooth bumps appear on birch not in the spring, but in early February, when the frosty winds blow and there is a severe cold. It is only closer to the spring earrings on this tree will become larger and bloom only in may.

Please note that in the autumn there are no bumps, the leaves fall and the tree falls into hibernation, but nature is so strange that in winter the birch begins to Wake up. Probably not for nothing they say that this is a native Russian tree. It, like our beautiful women from the cold becomes more and more beautiful.

Photo taken with camera CANON EOS 50D, TAMRON 28-75mm lens