Each fall, my craving for persimmons intensifies; and each fall, I try to capture the elusive 'orange/yellow/vividness' of this fruit.
With the drought we are experiencing, I have yet to find a persimmon in the grocery store, and my generous student whose family raises them, saddens me as he reports there are no persimmons -- due to a late frost, high heat, no rain. SIGH!
Undeterred, I decide to find a photo to drool over and wish from, and try, yet another fall, to capture these persimmons in a more 'painterly' fashion.
This is my third attempt, and one I'm fairly pleased with, and a bit better, in my humble opinion, of my attempts last year (see viewfromtheoak.blogspot.com -- and search for 'persimmon'). When I did this same search and rediscovered the bounty I had last year, well, I just had to sigh!
Guess I'll have to be happy with an improving persimmon PAINTING instead of a persimmon pudding! LOL
6 comments:
That's the spirit - be happy with a much improved p. painting! LOL I worry that we are going to have to give up a lot of good things with this global warming and resultant weird weather patterns. Maybe you could check with Indiana -- persimmons are very popular there; not here for some reason!
Hugs,
Lorraine
You did great with these persimmons..they look as healthy as they indeed are- loaded with vitamins and essential amino acids. You'll have to redo them next year, when they'll be in abundance again...I just believe it.
Ronell
My goodness, I am had now idea they were so hard to get. Glad you had a photo as this painting is wonderfully full of color.
Lovely colors. One of these days I'm going to have to try to eat one of these--I've never tasted persimmon. Whenever I hear about the drought in your area I think of you and how sad it must be to see your garden suffering.
We are heading for another drought too, I am watering while I can but think that unless we get some summer rain more things will suffer. i love persimmons too, we ate dried ones in Japan and I used to love seeing them on the trees and hanging from the upstairs windows. I have tried growing them here but they dont like our very sandy dry soil. I love looking at your paintings and really liked the silver birches.
In Western NC there was high heat, drought, and the Easter freeze, as well. And yet in September I found persimmons. I hadn't had real persimmons for probably 30 years! I ate a few and saved the seeds, which I intend to plant into my tree row, where my beautiful maples were removed.
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