My Trees, Keeping Their Leaves

MY BRADFORD PEAR TREES have still not shed their leaves, and its December the twelfth. I planted them eight years ago as five foot saplings, now they are now over twenty feet tall and full grown, but always before they had shed their leaves by Halloween. Now I'm wodnering whether they will even be barren by Christmas, or New Year's. It was very strange, during the recent late autumn ice and snow storm which covered the eniter country, watching the ice and snow pelt down hour after hour, and cling to the leaves on my four bradford pear trees, which I thought shouldnt've been there. Then, all that ice and snow fell to the ground, and the leaves stayed on the trees, as if the trees were determined to keep half their leaves until mid December, no matter what I thought. It will be bery interesting, over the next few years, to take note of when my bradford pear trees drop their leaves. The growing season, in the United Stats, seems to be getting longer. Spring begins earlier, summer lasts longer, and the winters seems shorter and milder, in general, with extreme exceptions of severe snow, ice, and cold storms. The global warming models predict an increase in extreme weather, extreme hot, cold, wind, drought. It will be interesting, over the next few decades, to note whether trees leae out earlier, drop leaves later, and whether all the other global warming effects transpire, which one stronglyl suspects they will. Unless, of course, we do something about it now, like, reverse it. Reverse global warming and climate change, the ability to do which we now have, hallelujah. All we need now is the will.