I do remember the one of the hand reaching out.  I forget, I am not the only one who sees and watches for formations in the clouds.  We have not gotten and good cloud days for a while. Maybe tonight after all the storms

Jack, thank you very much for wonderful photos!
I do not remember the photo.

Sachiko thank you.   Just back from the park and took a photo of what many of the trees look like now.  The cicada are about gone, but on many of the trees they have cut into the newer growth to lay eggs.  The branches then break off, fall to the ground and they go deep into the soil to wait for another 17 years.   That is not blossoms on the trees but the ends that are about to fall off.  This would kill young trees but for the older ones it is just like a pruning.

Jack, thank you for your rare photo.

Fukuyama unusually clears today for time in the rainy season. I want to also take a photo.　

Really great photos, Jack... love the sky & clouds but did not know that about the tree branches.  Amazing!  What kind of trees to they do that to, all kinds?  My river bed trees are in a jungle right now, the weeds under the trees have grown tall since we had rain & couldn't get down to run the weed whip. 

Must go feed cats their bedtime snack so I can go to sleep.  Last couple nights all the cats have wanted to stay outside all night because it's so hot all day they can't move around.  Thanks for the photos Jack & Sachiko... My mouth waters every time I scroll past your delicious tomatoes!

Shirley they do not appear to bother the evergreens.  Took a look and found this.   

Big, Hearty North American Trees: Deciduous trees, like elm, chestnut, ash, maple, and oak, are the preferred host trees of periodical cicadas. They will flag the branches of these trees, but only young ones are at risk.

Good afternoon,everyone.

JackW, your picture are so beautiful. the one with the cloud formation took my breath away.  I would call it the hand of God.  I get beautiful sunsets from my front porch in the Fall. I would put a picture in but I do not know how.  the only thing I can do with my computer is turn it on and off. Maybe my neighbor may help me.
My husband did not like cooked tomatoes.

Lindancer,  thanks.  You might check with JeanneLee or have someone else post your photos.   A good start with the computer is knowing how to turn it on and off.  I seldom turn mine off.  You will not break it, go into the computer discussion with questions and tell them what you now have.   When I retired 1996 they kidded me for not touching the computers at our bank.  Several years later I purchased my first and seldom watch tv.

There are four trees of persimmon in my garden. Many fruits grow to the tree of these persimmons. These persimmons are bitter now, but when autumn comes, they turn red and become sweet. I look forward to that autumn comes.

Sachiko, all of these are lovely, so crisp and clear! I especially love the last two, perhaps the green persimmon best, but you take such amazing photos!

Sachiko.  I think I mentioned last year that I had just eaten some Pound Cake.( Persimmon  Bread) . A lady baked it at the club. Never had it before. Just make Banana Bread, Pumpkin bread.  I like the persimmon better.  But still I have never seen any in the stores. I don't think the trees must grow in this part Of the US. I can't even find in in cans. Like the Pumpkin. Yours look perfect.  Do you make the Bread with them.  Someone told me that the trees can get real mess with them dropping down if not picked before getting ripe. And the birds really pick on them and make a mess.  I would pick them before that.

Beautiful photos, Sachiko, and I also love persimmons when ripe but they can cause the mouth to really pucker up if still green.  Our grocery store had some other years that were nothing like the wild trees that grew in Missouri (even in the woods behind our house).  The ones in the store were much bigger.  Have you ever broken the seeds apart?  We would crack them apart and inside would be what looked like a fork, knife or spoon... it always fascinated me that the same tree could have different types inside.  I have not seen them grow in Kansas, maybe they do on the eastern side. 

I forgot to let Mama Callie out of the garage after giving her a snack.  Tom, Tiger & Lauren are out, they don't mind the heat & prefer it to the AC.  Everyone is afraid what the rest of summer will be like since July & August are our HOT months!  Hate to think of it being hotter than this month.  Already things are looking dry but we had rain last Sat & a little this morning, just enough to create a steam bath~  You know I whine all summer.  I did go down & call the fish, had quite a few tonight along with some geese & half grown babies.  The geese don't like the fish coming up under them in the water...     ... they nearly jump out.  One goose came on the bank and took some bites of bread out of my hand.  Got to take my weed whip down & clean off the path before the weeds grow too big for it to work.  Mosquitoes didn't get me tonight, I hate to spray.....

Jack, been watching the news about flooding in your state, hope not near you or your family!   Shirley

angelface, JeanneP, Shirley, thank you very much for your comments.

JeanneP, there is no canned food of the persimmon in Japan. I just eat the Japanese persimmon. I baked a cake before, but I do not bake it recently.

Shirley, I have got the seed of the Japanese persimmon. It was like the spoon.

Shirley, as Japan is the rainy season now, it rains almost every day. It is raining today.

When I appeared to my garden and looked at my petit tomato, one bunch just got longer.

Great persimmons.  In Israel they get a special treatment so that they are always sweet and do not pucker the tongue, even when hard. Then you can eat them like you would an apple.

They are not in season now. At present we have mango, cherries, fresh almonds, plums, peaches, apricots pears and grapes. Bananas can be eaten all year round of course.

Yes, Shirley, persimmons grow in eastern Kansas.  I took a bite of a green one when I was a kid growing up there and never made that mistake again.  I haven't seen or eaten a persimmon in many years.  The wild persimmons grow all over NC but you almost never see them in the market.  They are too perishable and have too many seeds to be good sellers. 

Here they have no seeds, or at most just one small one!

bubble, thank you very much for your comment. When my persimmons in the photo are still young and became red ripe, they become delicious indulgently.

In Japan, we can eat most fruit including the thing which we cannot harvest throughout the year in Japan.

When I looked at my petit tomato on the afternoon of today, 6 tomatoes became ripe. I harvested them and had in dinner.

Sachiko, I'm getting very hungry looking at these delicious fruits and vegetables.  Have been waiting for Larry to finish with watering the flowers before cooking breakfast.  It is time now to get busy.

Sachiko.  I have never seen tomato grow so many on one stem. Must have the best soil going.

I now found out that 2 persimmon trees grow by our library. I didn't know that was what they were. Always would see these green (balls) one day and then short time later after warming up would be a mess on the ground.  Now learn that some people from Either Japan or China have asked if they can come and take care of them and harvest them when ripe. The library were ready to chop them down thinking to messy.

Jean, thank you very much for your comment.
You are very busy! We finish breakfast, and my husband does the mowing of our garden now. I finished washing and sat at my PC.

JeanneP, I take nothing about the garden, but, my husband does manure and weeds.

It is difficult to explain Japanese persimmon. There are the persimmon becoming sweet and the persimmon which becomes red, and is bitter in Japan.

There is one astringent persimmon in my garden, and the fruits grow in it. We peel this fruit and eat after drying it for approximately one month. And they become very sweet and become delicious.

Sachiko, Thanks for the beautiful pictures you take.

Here is a picture of my cat Taffy. Trying this for the first time- hope it works

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Jack W.

This is a picture of a sunset from my front door

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Lindancer.  You did great. I just cannot learn how to get photo's into here. Not that I use a camera but can do them on my IPad or also get lots that family send to my E-Mail.  Just never learned to put in S and F. Its awful me always asking Jeanne Lee or others to post for me.

I got a good family one today. I  may see if Jeanne will put it in. Not often get them all together and dressed. The are on a cruise at the moment.

JeanneP, My neighbor came over to day, and showed me how to post pictures.