(Can you tell I use my blue spray paint more than any other?)
(I seem to find more and more feathers lately. My Pollyanna attitude likes to think these birds just had too many feathers, so they left some behind for easier flight... they weren't attacked by predators, nope, not in my yard.)
I brought this inside because I had a sudden urge to make a pencil drawing or a watercolor sketch of it. Of course, that didn't happen, and it shriveled up and I threw it out.
If anyone can tell me what this is, I'd be grateful. For years and years since I have lived here, they fall in my yard, and all over my driveway and get on my tires. Instead of being a hater, maybe I need to see if it is something I should be eating... you know, in case of a nuclear meltdown and having to scounge for food....
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Pat, I'm fascinated by the objects that fall all over your driveway...I think the first clue would be..."What are they falling from?" ...maybe a tree or a bush of some sort...or are a flock of birds flying over and just spitting them out on your driveway? If you can identify what they are falling from,then I think the answer will come quite readily...I'm anxious to hear your response.
ummm... I guess it WOULD help if I gave some helpful information!
They fall from a tree beside the driveway. In the fall, the limbs are so full of these things, they bend down with the heaviness.
These are about 1 to 2 inches in size.
They look like miniature apples.
A google search showed a crabapple that looks kinda like this, but my tree never, ever, ever has blooms on it (rules out the Flowering Crabapple tree).
The leaves on the tree are smooth, shaped like an oval sort of.
I guess if I really wanted to know if they were edible, I'd just eat one. But I'm not adventurous like that when it comes to food! If you said "these fried crickets are Really good", I still would not eat one. Even if they were covered in chocolate.
Persimmon, maybe?
It looks like a persimmon to me. All this time you've been throwing away good fruit.
I just remembered why I stay away from that tree. It has poison ivy growing all around it. It could be growing dollar bills, and I would not touch them!!
Pat, My son thinks it looks like Persimmon...do they get kind of "ripe" with aroma after awhile? Yep, I'd stay away from the Poison Ivy too.
Pat I love those numbers - where did you find them??
they are persimmons- we had a grove of them in our yard when I was a kid.
Definitely persimmons. If you cut open the seeds you'll get an old-timers' clue to the winter weather. A knife shape means cutting cold. A spoon shape means lots of snow to be shoveled. If you open several and there is a mixture, it will have plenty of both. And if you have the time and patience to 'harvest' the pulp, I can give you a good recipe for persimmon pudding. Mmmmm! And if you collect some of those dollar bills, I can tell you where to buy the pulp so you can bypass the hard job of separating it from the skins.
By the way, I love the blue collage you've made. And I think the birds are 'gifting' you, knowing you will treasure their gifts.
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