multicolored acorns

[asakiyume]

This year some of the white oaks, whose acorns are less full of tannin than those from red oaks, are making lots of nuts! These nuts are practically edible out of hand. They don't make your mouth go all fuzzy the way red-oak acorns do (at least, the red-oak acorns from the trees around here). I've been nibbling on them--they're nice, though I hesitate to eat lots raw.

I'm going to try to make another acorn cake.

They're so pretty in different stages of ripening--multicolored. Here are some in a bowl:



And here are three pretty ones. Look how the one on the left is positively *red* down at its tip:



This one's wearing so many colors, it's like an acorn jester:

Comments

[rosefiend.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure about eating acorns off my white oak trees but this is the first year they've produced any so I might give a few of them a nibble.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I found myself thinking, hey, this is really pretty much edible (as opposed to, this will be lovely once I've leached the hell out of it).

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

They are lovely, such rich color!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

A treasure^_^

[duccio.livejournal.com]

They look like little planets. Their tree would be like a whole galaxy of planets, and all the trees in the neighborhood, like a universe - one of infinitely many many more universes-es. Like you, asakiyume-e: a universe of ideas.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh I love your idea of a tree galaxy. I'm going to think of that now, when I look at an oak tree all laden with nuts.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Those are quite beautiful. When I lived in Nashville, I think the acorns I picked up were all brown.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I think a lot depends on when you pick them up--at first when they fall, a lot of them are green--and then later, they're brown. It could be that the trees near you hung onto more of their nuts until they were ripe, or that you noticed them more when they were brown.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cake! :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:D

[sovay]

They're so pretty in different stages of ripening--multicolored.

They look like carved beads.

This one's wearing so many colors, it's like an acorn jester

That image has made something go off inside my head, but it may take me a little while to get to it. Thank you all the same!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

They do! Something to give a child to string.

I look forward to whatever comes to you--whenever it comes--from that line.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Funny how acorns and you are inextricably connected in my mind now. :P

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased with that association! (Rather like I associate you with, among other things, milkweed.)

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

...like an acorn jester...

Now I want to see that Lear!

Nine

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

An ancient acorn ... and a true nut. (ouch...)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

The bowl of acorns looks so festive! Like for a harvest festival.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The early fruits of autumn. And just now I'm back from picking Concord grapes from the side of the road--it really does feel autumnal.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

So pretty.

I've been discovering autumnal treasures myself in central Europe!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I must come take a look at your pictures!

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

:) Sounds good! Have you tried beech-nuts?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I never have, though I hear that they're edible. Have you?

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

No, I've never been near a beech at the right season. But I've heard they much more likely to be appealing to human taste than acorns, which I have nibbled on, but... errr... without actual delight. ;)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

One day I'll give you a slice of acorn cake--that'll nudge your impression up to delight ^_^

[cafenowhere.livejournal.com]

Have you noticed a difference in the size of the acorns, between this fall and last? Ours are HUGE this year, though I haven't noticed much color change.

Do you nibble the acorn whole? (without its hat, of course; but otherwise, no peeling?)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

No, I did peel it. The outer shell is really tough and fibrous, and not at all edible-seeming, but the inside had the consistency of an almond.

These particular ones are not so large--the red-oak acorns are larger, but I don't think they're larger than they were last year. Maybe you guys just had excellent acorn-growing conditions!

acorn bombs

[docdad2.livejournal.com]

We have a metal roof. The Oak tree in our front yard has been randomly bombing us for weeks.
The dogs have finally got the picture and no longer bark with each falling acorn "Crack".
Grin
D

Re: acorn bombs

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Jolly good that the dogs have adjusted to the sound of the acorns dropping, because to have the ping-pinging of the acorns *and* the barking of the dogs would be likely to test your sanity!