Throw-back Thursday walk - posted on a rainy Sunday

Two blocks from my home stands the elementary school where my children spent about 14 years all told (EC attended from first grade through fourth. MC and YC attended from kindergarten through fourth.).

How many times did we make this walk? I figure about a thousand times, give or take a hundred (because it did rain on occasion and we were known to play hooky as well), we wandered from home to school and back again gathering classmates and picking up squirrel gnawed Bur oak acorns (We knew those were squirrel teeth marks because we compared the marks to the squirrel skull Grandpa gave us).

Loads of plants are bearing fruit and beans and seed pods, preparing for new plants. Pecan trees groan under the weight of ripening fruit.

Bur oak acorns*

Giant live oak tree

Big pomegranate crop

More pomegranates

Mountain Laurel beans

Trumpet vine seed pods

Silver-leaved nightshade fruit (No we did not seed the dollar for those picking up trash. We are using it to show the size of the "tomatoes.").

Close-up of silver-leaved nightshade "tomatoes"

Little yellow flowers

Pink flowers ( ) scattered in the dry grass with tall goldenrod spikes about to bloom.

Fall wildflowers

NOTE: OK. The wildflower photos are from the park, but I needed to put them somewhere.