Divinebunbun's Rugged Rural Missouri

Divinebunbun lives in a log cabin on 100 acres in the rocky Ozark foothills. Her porch is a box seat on nature and the seasons. This is her journal of chores and mysteries, natural history photos, and observations.

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Sunday, September 22, 2019

Elegy for a Shagbark Hickory

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Missouri's eastern forests are oak-hickory forests and the trees on occasion die and fall, or get struck by lightning (you'll know...

Saturday, October 24, 2015

"Tastes Like Wald Hick'ry Nuts"

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Come a certain week in autumn it's World War One around here with "Bang! Bang!" on the cabin roof and people jumping out of ...

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Sweet and Fatty

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Discoveries about the creamy pleated sweet-tasting acorn-sized wild hickory nuts that I have gathered 10 pounds of, the best harvest yet. Ea...

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Wonder

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One bright autumn morning back in the old days when kids walked to school, at the corner of Marquette Street and Washington Avenue a tree ...

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Friday, August 2, 2013

Free Food

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A shagbark hickory tree has a three-year cycle, producing lots of nuts, then some, then squat, and I didn't know that, so last year ...

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