SNOW FALLING ON PERSIMMONS

You've seen these with lush, dark green leaves, with brilliant autumnal leaves and no leaves at all. Why should you not be subjected to them with snow?

View large was disabled yesterday because it did not have enough pixels. Size matters! Who knew? It was just when I had achieved the terracotta army look with chocolate houses, too.

Himself dashed off to the supermarket and got stuck coming back. Of course. I told him he would. Italy is no slouch when it comes to clearing roads of snow. They do not mess about, but neither do they do private mountain roads. The road is private from the T junction down below which means a lot of us up here are snowed in and will be long after the valley roads are clear. Not only do they beaver to keep the roads clear, I received a telephone call from the Commune di Lucca (county council) to advise of conditions, to give emergency numbers, that the schools were now closed, not to travel at all. Ok, I won't.

I did a stealth picture of himself as he arrived in front of the house, gasping having walked up for miles in the snow. I may put it up later. Meanwhile, here is the persimmon tree in the night. Persimmons in the night.

Himself, puffed