God the tree pics bring back memories.
When I was elementary school age my father took an engineering job in Chile.
We had a tree in one of the recess yards that rained down the things in post #8 every fall. And yes, the full sized tree pic looks familiar as well.
The connection?
Well, the local public schools were notoriously bad, so my parents shopped around and found something started & run by the Episcopalians. A little shop called St. Johns English School. want proof?
Ok, here goes, since I KNOW no one would laugh...
yes, those
ARE real knees!
Mine, in fact,
Fred