A few more hickory nuts

While mowing the lawn yesterday, I couldn't help but notice a few more hickory nuts on the ground.  Once I was finished mowing, I returned to see how many I could track down.

As you can see in the picture above, the nuts are in varying stages of ripeness.  I put these nuts along with the ones we collected a few days ago.  We let them dry out (husks open at this time) and will do another float test on the "new" nuts in another week or two.

Later in the afternoon, the family took a walk to see if we could find some black walnuts and found a few more.  Didn't think it was worthy of a picture, though.