Our next door neighbors have a rain tree in their front yard. I am accustomed to thinking of it as a bit of a nuisance since its seed pods are highly effective harbingers of life and little tiny rain trees come up all over the place and are very hard to get rid of, but...at this time of year, it is a thing of great beauty. The seed pods change colors in an exquisite way that we don't see too much of down south and then blanket the ground like a bed of flowers. I don't know why I don't call them flowers, as I suppose all flowers are seedpods and these are very beautiful, but their mostly closed three-sided nature makes me say pods.
The Lone Star Baby likes them.
For the last couple of days we have been collecting them in envelopes and buckets and using them for art projects and botany lessons. The Lone Star Baby is all about the lovely little pods. She is a joy to behold in the cool, crackling outdoors with the sunshine on her hair, talking about how boooo-ti-ful the pods are.
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