Observations by sidonias

It's cold and rainy and I saw a tree. I'm not sure what kind of tree it was though, but I now it was cultivated. It's growing in my backyard, and it's an adult tree. It's growing in soil and mulch, and it is growing to the sun. This tree is growing next to another tree, and some flowers are growing around the base of it. The leaves, seeds, and flowers aren't visible in the winter. But the trunk is, the trunk is about two inches thick, and fifteen feet tall. The trunk is round with little bumps every here and there. It is light brown with darker brown swirls around the trunk. It has many branches, and more branches coming out of those branches, and even more branches coming out of those branches. It is growing right next to our house, so it's like the tree has a support system that helps it grow straight up. Can you help me figure out what kind of tree this is?

It was a cool sunny day, and I think I saw a Willow tree in my backyard, but I'm not sure. It's growing in soil and mulch, it was growing up towards the sun. At the base of the tree are flowers, and another tree is growing next to it. Its leaves fall off in the winter, and in the winter it has no seeds or flowers. Its trunk is about twenty-five feet tall, and about three inches wide. The trunk is smooth with little lumps where it looks like other branches could grow out of. It is dark brown with little bits of light brown. There are a lot of branches growing off the trunk and more little branches growing off those branches. It looks like a very small tree because its trunk is so thin, but it is very tall.

This Japanese Maple tree is an adult, it has green and red leaves, and loses them in the winter time. The trunk is mostly dark brown with little swirls and lines of light brown. It is growing towards the sun. It has few bite holes in the leaves, but not many.
The tree is a little taller than my garage, so it is probably about 12 feet tall. It's leaves a e kind of star shaped, with points at the tips.

This is an adult cat named Poppy, she is orange with a white stomach and neck, with greenish brown eyes. Her fur is short and soft. She sleeps a lot and purrs very loudly. Every night she tries to eat moths through the bathroom window. She is large, she ways about 14 pounds. And she sleeps a lot, I woke her up taking this picture.

Today I found some aster. I'm pretty sure it was cultivated, and it was a mature stage of aster. It was growing with a lot of other plants and more aster. It has a light green stem, with white flowers that have a yellowish brownish middle. It was about two or three feet tall, and each flower was a little under an inch in diameter.