The jacaranda trees have all but finished shedding their purple blooms, and are nearly naked. Metaphorically speaking, the days of wine and roses are over and now you get to see her without her makeup. The result of all that frenzied mating? Some eerie Body Snatchers-looking seedpods dangling on long stems. These odd, dangling, suitcase-like “pod people,” will, I guess, fall to the ground—or rather the sidewalk—and the birds then will do their part in spreading the ever-popular jacaranda throughout the world.