We've been watching the Persimmons, and they are starting to turn orange.  That's a good sign.  They should be ready around the first frost.  Our first frost won't be for a couple months, usually around November 15th.  

 

Until the fruits start falling, we can only look at them, and enjoy how pretty they are.  You NEVER want to rush a persimmon, and NEVER pick them.  Until they are totally ripe, they are so astringent that they turn your mouth wrong-side out.  But when they are ripe, they will fall to the ground, and then they are delicious.  They taste like apricot jam.  They have 5 big seeds, so we don't bother collecting and preserving them.  We just snack on a few, and let the deer have the rest.  They love them too.  

 

Don't you know, I love seeing this many persimmons on the trees.  

 

HAPPY ALMOST FALL!!!