multicolored acorns

This year some of the white oaks, whose acorns are less full of tannin than those from red oaks, are making lots of nuts! These nuts are practically edible out of hand. They don't make your mouth go all fuzzy the way red-oak acorns do (at least, the red-oak acorns from the trees around here). I've been nibbling on them--they're nice, though I hesitate to eat lots raw.

I'm going to try to make another acorn cake.

They're so pretty in different stages of ripening--multicolored. Here are some in a...