You will have spent the last two months collecting pine cones of uniform size and dipping them in gold paint. |
Sometimes a rapid crown fire singes pine cones hut the seeds inside are protected. |
You can still see the grass and the leaves and the twigs and the pine cones and the bark and so forth. |
They scrounged for pine cones for the fires, and both became adept at chopping kindling. |
The heat from the fire causes the pine cones to explode, dispersing seed over a wide area. |
Bits of wood, leaves, pine cones, stones and the odd lump of twisted metal rained down onto the clearing. |