Frances Hairston: The beauty of the bois d’arc
If you have never had the privilege of viewing the beauty of a large bodock tree from your own yard, you’ve missed something. A gnarly looking twisting structure of a tree with big lime green fruit with a pebbly texture, the bodock could well be the official tree of the Prairie.
Possumhaw: Bodock and horse apples
In the deep ditches beside the road are several large green balls. They look like bowling balls in a gutter lane of a bowling alley.