looking out my front door…

another view out my front door…

my shrub that has the beautiful pink flowers in the spring.  You can see that I really trimmed it after it bloomed in the spring.

just look at the nasty beans…

honey locust pod
Beans/Pods/ - available
$12.00/lb. dry whole pod, plus shipping.
The honey locust is a North American tree. It was occasionally naturalized in Central and Southern Europe. Other common names used for it include Sweet bean, Sweet locust and Honeyshuck.
The pulp around the seeds in the pods is edible, being sweet and molasses-like, and sugar can be extracted from it.
Pods generally contain 12-14% sugar, although in selected cultivators this rises to up to 40%. Various North Americans recipes exist for making beer from the pulp.
The tender young pods are edible when cooked. Also edible are the seeds, raw or cooked; the young seeds taste like raw peas. The seeds are sweet, containing up to 30% sugar, also 10-22% protein, 0.8-4.2% fat, and are high in calcium (275mg/100g) and phosphorous (315mg/100g). Roasted seeds can be used as a coffee.
The pods are a source of ethanol production. Pod yields of 2.5 tons of dry matter per Hectare (85 trees/Ha producing 30kg pods dry weight) would yield 730 litres of ethanol which is only 20% of that obtained from a hectare of sugar beet.
As a sustainable and a low input source, though, it is much more viable.
$3.50/4 oz. ground pods/meal, plus shipping.
$2.00/seeds - pack of 20, plus shipping. 

I had no idea my beans were so expensive. LOL I found this info at http://www.wildpantry.com/beans.htm
Anyway my tree is a honey locust tree.

It was so cold and windy that I took these pictures looking out my front door.