{"id":946,"date":"2009-10-04T18:10:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2009-10-04T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T18:11:55","slug":"the-tree-behind-our-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/the-tree-behind-our-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The tree behind our house"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a tree behind our apartment building. There’s a bench beneath it, a good place to sit away from the main traffic through the park. It’s a nice enough tree during the summer.<\/p>\n

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About two weeks ago, we noticed people in the park stooped around the tree, occasionally picking something off the ground. By last week, families were coming to fill their sacks. <\/p>\n

\"Nut<\/a><\/p>\n

We’d seen people harvesting berries from other places in the park, so foraging in public park was not unusual behavior. Nevertheless, this tree was attracting quite a bit of attention. Will’s curiosity began \"Nut<\/a>to burn, and Anita got interested too. So today, we went down to take a look for ourselves.\"Nut<\/a><\/p>\n

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The area was picked over, of course. We found whole nuts, but they were either from the bush nearby or the horse-chestnut tree a bit further. (The tree drops conkers<\/a>, which we call buckeyes when they fall from the North American variant.) <\/p>\n

\"Nut<\/a><\/p>\n

The soft shells aren’t familiar to us. The few hard shells look like walnuts to Anita.<\/p>\n

\"Nut<\/a>
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Help! Can you help us identify this tree? This curiosity is starting to feel like an itch, and it seems a little creepy to stake out the park.<\/p>\n

\"Nut<\/a>
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