Saturday, August 12, 2006

Poppables

Sorrel.
Sorrel looks a little like three leaf clovers, but the leaves have little scallops. It has little yellow flowers. The most interesting thing about sorrel is that it has little seed pods. When they get ripe, they turn from green to yellowish green. When you touch a ripe one, little seeds pop out. It's really fun to make them pop. When my friends and I used to find them, we would look at them and decide whether we could make them pop. If we thought it was too soon for popping, we would say, "That one is poppable but not probable".