iPhone pics taken last fall through a window of the shed behind my house where I keep my lawn tractor and all the assorted implements and gardening tools. Won't be long before I'll be pulling off the mower and replacing it with the snow blower.
A bit of interesting weather-related folklore, supposedly the pattern inside the seeds of a native eastern U.S. persimmon tree (
diospyros virginiana) predicts what the upcoming winter will be like: spoon pattern = more than normal snowfall, fork pattern = mild winter and good hunting, knife pattern = colder than normal with cutting winds.
And you guessed it, folks manning the booths at a local farmer's market are reporting nearly 100% spoon patterns when they cut open this fall's persimmon seeds with a sharp knife.
