Pine cones

When I was hiking last week I saw these pinecones still attached to a broken limb so I pulled off enough to make a flower.  They are about half the length of my little finger.  The pine tree was a big tall pine so I think the limb broke off before the cones could grow to full length.    I wanted to put something in the middle for a center but nothing in my dish of "treasures" looked right.

I think my laptop is going to bite the dust.  It keeps stopping in the middle of uploading photos and then it stops in the middle of editing and then stops in the middle of typing.   It is only five years old!   I will talk to my son the computer person to see if there is some kind of thing I (or he) can do to make it stop doing this.   Aggravating!