While autumn begins in the North Hemisphere, male pine cones are exploding in the southerly latitudes. While in Villa Lena, last spring Clarisse Demory played with the Tuscan gardeners as they threw stones at a pine tree crowded with male cones loaded with pollen. These have nothing to do with the solid female cones one can collect on the ground. They look structured like pine cones but are mostly just pollen powder, and it's so much fun to make them explode. Photographer Frederik Vercruysse was there to record the moment.