And the persimmon tree.

The confetti of the season!

Persimmon tree! I remember the first time I saw a persimmon tree in the autumn. It was in a garden behind Giorgio Vasari’s home in Arezzo.

I thought then that the tree looked like nature’s natural Christmas tree: shorn of its leaves but with large round bright orange balls!

This beautiful specimen is in a garden not far from my home in Florence.