Conspiracy Of Oaks Makes Acorn Showers

I’ve been thinking about acorns. I’ve noticed many more of them on the ground in our neighborhood this fall than I can remember ever seeing before.

They literally carpet the east side of our backyard, dominated by a big white oak tree. They’re also all over our driveway. Up the hill, where Pelham Heights Road intersects with Firethorn Drive, cars have squashed so many acorns that the intersection is splotched yellow.

Acorns are in all the gutters, too. They crackle agreeably underfoot when I walk our corgi up that way.

During the infrequent times when I’m outside doing yard work, I hear acorns dropping elsewhere as well. I’ve never seen or heard so many.
At first, I attributed this deduction to years of training as an editorialist and investigative reporter. However, my wife told me recently that she’d noticed the same thing — a bumper crop of acorns this fall.

I decided I’d better call Mary Jo Modica over at the Arboretum — which is not far from our house, as the crow flies — to find out what was happening. Full Story

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