Can’t sleep. I lay in bed for a while, listening to the sound of a few brave crickets and other bugs I don’t know the names of, the occasional impact of magnolia grenades on the roof, and Kirk’s gentle snoring, which usually lulls me to sleep. But I have been sick the past few weeks and sleeping fitfully, but this morning I slept in until almost 11am. So tonight, instead of being unable to sleep due to coughing my head off, i’m unable to sleep because I’m not tired.
The front yard plays host to two massive magnolia trees. Well, technically, many more than two trees, as one of them is really a group of magnolias that were trained to grow up and into each other. They were so well trained that they have grown into each other and are now pretty much one tree. I have never been near magnolias before, and have yet to see them in bloom, having moved here to South Carolina in September of this year. After they bloom, they develop large seed pods that drop bright red seeds. Once the seeds have all fallen, or been eaten by squirrels, the pods themselves drop as well. They are 3 to 5 inches in diameter, and a bit longer than that. The two magnolia trees have grown up over the roof. They drop these grenades fairly often throughout a day. When they do, I hear a faint thud, and then the sound of the seed pods rolling down the roof.
Perhaps i will take some pictures tomorrow to go along with this entry.
Magnolia Grenade.
Straight, single tree.
Twisted, multiple tree.
Twisted tree again.
