{Summer Fade-Out & Fall Fade-In + Update}

Just got home today from a fairy tale wedding in Toronto, Canada. Quite a trip for getting home, the day after the wedding, but we made it to Atlanta by coach, plane and car. Now catching up at home and first having a good night sleep! As soon as I do have some official wedding photos I might post some, but in general we do respect other people's privacy and for that reason we ourselves did not make any. Leave it to the different professional photographers and it's up to the bride and groom for granting permission to publish any. Hope this does answer some blogger friend's request for posting wedding photos...

What do YOU think about this?

As I'm worn out, I will post just some Summer Fade-Out and Fall Fade-In photos from us in our garden.

Dear husband Pieter on August 16, near our Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) and our feline girl, Tiggy-Tiger, to the left.

Only a small section of the Variegated Ground Ivy Glechoma hederacea 'Variegata' is alive, due to the scorching heat.

Did you lose some of your ground covers or perennials this summer?

Tiggy-Tiger our feline girl is next to the palm tree...

Our soft leave Agave Attenuata or Fox Tail Agave is drought tolerant! This photo is from November 6 and it did very well as you can see.

Do you have any type of agave?

Of course, this pot has to go inside for the winter season!

Wearing my rib cord Newsboy cap, similar to a French beret.

One of my several Hats...

Woolen gray pants are from Escada as is the orange blouse.

On October 20, with gardener Pieter, next to our evergreen oak. To the right you can see the Agave!

Until next time and I would love to hear from you about those questions...

THANKS for taking the time to reply!

{Our Diospyros virginiana L - Eastern Persimmon}

In our wood garden we discovered for the very first time lots of fruits on a tree we have had for many years. It appears to be a Diospyros virginiana L or Eastern Persimmon. When ripe, the sweet fruit of Persimmon somewhat recalls the flavor of dates. Immature fruit contains tannin and is strongly astringent. Persimmons are consumed fresh and are used to make puddings, cakes, and beverages. American Indians made persimmon bread and stored the dried fruit like prunes. Opossums, raccoons, skunks, deer, and birds also feed upon the fruit. Principal uses of the wood are for golf-club heads, shuttles for textile weaving, and furniture veneer. The word persimmon is of Algonquian origin, while the genus name Diospyros, from the Greek, means fruit of the god Zeus. For more info just click on the hyperlink in the name above of Diospyros virginiana L.

October 13 shows perfect fruits and as we tasted them, they indeed somewhat recall the flavor of dates. They do have several stones so there is not that much fruit-flesh left to eat from. We leave them totally to the wildlife for snacking on.

This was on November 10. They kind of cling to the branches with no stem on the fruits. You see the leaves turning pretty yellow already.

This and the next images are from October 13 with still green leaves. Someone is also snacking on the leaves...

It will ask for some skill for getting those fruits off. We had a hard time doing so...

Maybe a raccoon or possum will get to them easily?

Providing Food & Shelter for our Backyard Wildlife HABITAT for which we earned our certificate: Our Backyard Wildlife HABITAT Certificate from August 1997

{Michelle Obama & Print Unlimited from Horst}

When my friend Ellie and I did visit on September 13, the Museum Lace Factory; Museum de Kantfabriek in my birth place Horst, I encountered a poster from our First Lady Michelle Obama. She is wearing a silk top from designer Peter Pilotto that has been printed by Print Unlimited in Horst.

Print Unlimited about Peter Pilotto and digital textile printing. Jos Bastiaans, who used to work with Stork Prints, is now heading Print Unlimited in Horst where they do digital printing on textile for the fashion and entertainment industry.  Below is a photo with Michelle Obama in Peter Pilotto's Digital Print Silk Top . Also Vogue did publish the US First Lady Michelle Obama on November 10, 2009 in British Vogue. Michelle had purchased the top from a store in Chicago that sells Peter Pilotto designer clothes.

I took this photo from the laminated poster...

Some of the volunteers at the Lace Museum misspelled the name Pilotto...

Thought you would find this an interesting story that the US First Lady, Michelle Obama, actually is wearing something that has been digitally printed on silk in my birth place Horst in The Netherlands...

Related articles and links:

Museum de Kantfabriek Horst aan de Maas | video on Youtube

{Museum Lace Factory - Antique Lace Toer or Poffer} | previous post by me

British Vogue - Pilotto Designs
Michelle Obama in Peter Pilotto My Fashion Life, 5 November, 2009