Pine Cone Pile
by Joseph Hollingsworth
Title
Pine Cone Pile
Artist
Joseph Hollingsworth
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Step into its woods, and pine cones carpet the forest floors. You’ve probably held them, maybe even decorated a holiday wreath with them, but what are they? And what roles have these strange, scaly pine tree-spawn played in our world? You might be surprised that throughout history, cones have been symbolic of immortality, human enlightenment, and ‘the third eye.’ Why? After some digging, much light was shed on a secret world of little known cone facts starting with...
Pine cones are the official Maine State Flower.
When you think of flowers, you think of something colorful, lovely, delicate not a hard, brown, woody, grenade-shaped object with sharp sticky scales. So are pine cones technically flowers? No, actually they are not, which makes them the only official state flower that are not flowers at all
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October 12th, 2017
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