horse apple

— While I wandeered around the yard watching this strange scenario, the thought occurred to me that we could gather up the horse apples from our neighbor’s yard, wrap plastic wrap around them and tell people they were gourmet popcorn balls! They couldn’t really see well enough in the dark to tell what they were. (For the non-Texans; horse apples are about the size of a grapefruit and are green, bumpy popcorn-looking balls that fall from the Bois d’ Arc tree and have a sticky, milky juice that oozes after being squished by cars.) Proper people call horse apples the fruit of the Bois d’ Arc tree.