Brown leaves are blown begrudgingly loose from their branches, less leaves in the case of the blackjacks and pin oaks, which rattle in the northwest wind, but all of them from the shaggy barked hickories and the autumn fruit and nut trees. Persimmons thus reveal themselves where swift cold fronts have chased the first frosts across their bitter
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This autumn has been immensely hard and painful for me; I hope that Spring's rebirth will see a whole new bright future for a lot of people, myself included.
Blessed Be!
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And now I know why persimmons don't taste good in California.... we don't get much snow in our agricultural farmlands.
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I don't remember if I told you about my Thanksgiving in Israel? Instead of Pumpkin, the hotel staff used squash because no one in my student group knew the Hebrew word for pumpkin. Nor was there any pumpkin in Israel at that time. Squash was the closest word that could be translated for a pumpkin. So the dessert pie was yellow and drizzled with brown chocolate. I don't need a pumpkin pie to be sweet, but this just didn't have the same flavors. I'm thinking that if they had used persimmons instead, WOW, then it would have been almost the same as the real thing....
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