In the Woods
November 25, 2011
On a cold, gray, windy, post-Thanksgiving day, D., E., Cesar and I headed to the woods.
From Sand Creek
Thoughts on agriculture, writing, families, Kansas and more
Lynn Marcinkowski Woolf: Writer, accredited in PR, part of a third-generation farm family. lynn@lynnwoolf.com
From Sand Creek 
November 26, 2011 at 7:23 am
Thanks for bringing a bit of the loveliness that KS offers to me! These are such familiar and beautiful sights.
November 26, 2011 at 8:47 am
It was a great afternoon escape.
December 9, 2011 at 7:48 am
What do you call that big green tennis ball like thing? Is there a walnut inside?
December 11, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Hi Tammy,
Those are hedge “apples” or hedge balls. Don’t they look little brains? I love their color. The outside is very hard and the inside is stringy.
Farmers around here in the ’30s planted rows of hedge trees (also called Osage Orange) for wind breaks. We still use the branches for fence posts. The apples are not edible for humans, but raccoons seem to like them.