pinecone hunter

I noticed a few weeks ago that there was a tree down the street that was dropping the perfect little pinecones!  I have been on the hunt for little pinecones to make a fall wreath from for awhile now.  I go down about every other day to collect what has fallen in the street.  I am tempted to ask the man that lives in the house if I can pick them up off his driveway too.  He seems to be pretty on top of cleaning them off his driveway and once they get squished by car tires they are useless to me. 

It feels funny to be planning fall projects, but the craft store is already putting out fall and winter decor, so maybe I need to come to grips with it all too.