Look up the next time you pass a pine tree in Michiana — chances are it's loaded with cones. Conditions this season are ripe for an abundance of these woody reproductive organs of pine trees, and they ...

MY YARD IS FULL of eastern white pine trees, and every three years or so, it is full of pine cones. This is one of those years. Pine cones have fallen all over the yard, the sidewalk, the driveway.

People walking through the woods can kick pine cones — unless you make wreaths, what else would you do with them? Especially in a mast year when the evergreens go into reproductive overdrive, their ...