In a message dated 10/1/2002 8:28:55 PM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I know it wasn't in the fall but who remembers the trees with those > seed pods like string beans hanging down. I still see some nowadays but > don't know the tree. Anybody know it? > Sounds like catalpa to me. Big heart-shaped leaves; flowers that look like pea blossoms; beans hanging down in the summer. Mimosa also has bean-shaped pods. It has fuzzy pink-and-yellow flowers like powder puffs and compound oval leaves. Hope this helps . . . Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr