We INDULGED in Japanese Persimmons

Before I will post about our very special trip, don't reveal it yet... I have to show you our perfect Japanese Persimmons that we found at the Charlottesville, Virginia Whole Foods Market.

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LOVE these Japanese Persimmons... they are the non-astringent ones, you bite them like an apple and they also keep very well.

They looked near perfect!

One such beauty, looking like true art work!

They were grown here in the USA from the Madera Persimmon Growers Inc. in Madera, California

FUYU PERSIMMONS KAKIS FUYU

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{Our Japanese Diospyros Kaki Persimmon} | previous post by me about our own Japanese Persimmon at the time...

Our Acer Saccharum Marshall or Sugar Maple Tree at its BEST

Already on November 20, I've taken these golden photos of our Sugar Maple Tree or Acer Saccharum Marshall.

Such a marvel to look at this Acer Saccharum Marshall!

Here you see the white bridge just to the right below the Acer Saccharum Marshall as this photo got taken from a different angle.

The weather at the time was fabulous too!

Bonus of living in the South...

Its neighbor the Red Maple or Acer Rubrum photographed with the house in the back.

Our Italian cypress are still alive, that is two of the original three. Though not very happy as they show lots of brown. We love them so much as they remind us of our time in Italy...

To the right are the leaves of yet another of our Acer trees, the Acer Negundo Kelly's Gold

A beautiful Ginkgo tree we captured on our recent biking trip on November 28!

Such a glorious sight.

Wishing you a great autumn or summer, depending which part of the world you are in.

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Related links:

{Our Acer - Maple Trees} | previous post by me
{Fall Colors & Clearing the Underbrush} | previous post by me

Bye-bye Spanish Moss and dear Friends...

On December 6 of 1990, it was our final day at home in Dublin and for Dad it was bye-bye Spanish Moss and dear Friends where he'd stayed with us the first days before we moved into our new home.

Dad loved this section of Akerman St. in Dublin, GA where the Spanish Moss hung so lavishly.

Can you imagine this was on December 6?!
Blue sky and Dad walks in his shirt...
Uncle Bo Whaley stopped by to say his goodbye...

Dear friend Somai stopped by to drop off a gift for Mom, for Dad to take home next day...
We all 3 did stay with her and husband Bob for five nights till we could make our own beds here in the new home, after finding everything inside those 110 boxes...

Always tough to leave friends, home and everything behind when flying across the Oceans, back to work in Indonesia...

Bye-Bye Dublin, Georgia...
Next day we flew with Dad on KLM Royal Airlines to Amsterdam, The Netherlands where all of us would gather at the Meeting Point.
Mom with my brother Piet and Rianne and sister Gerd were there!
Dad treated us all on a coffee and they drove home, back to the South in Limburg.
This time they managed to get into the car with 5 adults, contrary to November 11, when brother Harry had his little 3-year old son Johnny with him and thus no space for Mom in his Citroen BX...???

Dad had a nice America adventure and we had great help from him by moving into our new home.

Now it's back to work, next flight to Delhi and then Singapore and finally arriving in Jakarta, Indonesia... Next day flying to final destination, driving up into the mountains where we lived and worked.

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Uncle Bo Whaley gave Dinner in Honor of Dad | previous post by me
Dad in Savannah, Georgia | previous post by me
Dad Sang The First Noel and Thank You Lord at Presbyterian Church | previous post by me
With Dad to Okefenokee on the Georgia/Florida State Line | previous post by me
Blessing of our New Home with Dad being Present | previous post by me
Visiting Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia with Dad | previous post by me
Dad Visiting Chappell Grist Mill Dublin Georgia | previous post by me
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