East Bay Hills
Exploding Seed Pods
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Up in the East Bay Hills there are these shrubberies that about this time of year grow furry seed pods. Last time I was up there running I heard a series of loud pops and snaps that I thought were some kind of insect feeding in the bushes.
I looked for whatever enthusiastic bugs were having a good time in the bushes and found none… and just by luck brushed a seed pod and set it off. It exploded with a loud snap and sprayed my hand with small black seeds.
I noted the trail was peppered (sort of literally) with tiny black seeds and pods were exploding all around.
Posted at 22:00:35 GMT-0700