If you have never been in the country, or in an area where old, tall Pecan trees are in late October, you truly have missed an amazing phenomenon.
In late October, Pecan trees start dropping thier pecans. And if the tree is very old, and tall like the ones around our house, as the pecan hulls crack open and drop the pecans, they hit tiny branches, leaves and other pecans as they come down.
The sound can only be described as the sound of trees on fire. If you close your eyes you would swear what you hear is the popping and crackling of a large bonfire of fireplace.
Especially when the crows and blackbirds come to roost in the pecan trees they speed the process of the pecans falling.
You can look at the tree and swear it is on fire from the noise you hear, but there's no fire.
The intense 'trees on fire' noise you hear only lasts for a few days because after a majority of the pecans are dropped, the nise lessens and the few individual pecans that fall throughout November are not enough to cause the same effect and sound. But it is one of the things I love about this time of year.
Just thought I would share that. :-)
