Attack of the Fifty-Foot Green Cone-Throwing Monsters

This has been a strange year for trees-- first it was the ridiculously oversized acorn crop, now the pine trees next to our house have swung into action and dumped enormous quanities of cones. Picture:

This was just the first layer-- we had the same thing all over again the following week. To be honest, the pine cones were not all that bad, but the pine pitch dripping onto the car winshields was very unpleasant (takes forever to clean that stuff off).