Aspects of Autumn No.4 by sandra46
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This is my friend Carla's house, typical example of many houses in our countryside. The ground floor was once made of a very large room with a hearthplace, which was to heat all the people working inside, and an attached scullery. Here some more rooms were built from spare rooms, where they kept stuff (preserved food mostly), and the former lavatory, now a second bathroom. On the upper floor (first or second as you like in the US and UK) there still are the bedrooms and another bathroom, as well as smaller rooms used as wardrobe, study etc. Now every house has a modern heating system, but I still remember when I went to bed in my grandparents home, and they put a brass bottle, full of very hot water, or a copper cointainer with hot ashes, to warm the beds. I still have one or two of them somewhere, and they can be sold for a good price to antiquarians.
If there ever were a stable or a hen house, now they don't exist any longer. The shot was taken from under a cachi tree (Diospyros kaki, better known as the Japanese Persimmon (kaki [柿] or "shizi" [柿子] in Chinese) or Asian Persimmon in North America). These trees are very common in our countryside. I am very fond of their apple-like fruits, as my dad was. He used to peel them with painstaking attention. Flavia and my mom never ate one. So it seems that the world is divided into those who like cachi fruit and those who don't (I'm borrowing from Clint Eastwood, I think).
Trevor looks a bit crestfallen because, instead of scraping his belly as he wanted me to do, I lectured him on what a sorry specimen of guard dog he is.
Thank you for your kind comments.
Comments (43)
mariogiannecchini
Bel posto e bei colori! Molto interessante la spiegazione.
Hendesse
Beautiful view and colors. A wonderful place.
erlandpil
Wonderful place and fantastic shot!! erland
Darkwish
Wonderful pic! Very well done!
Radar_rad-dude
When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought it was a green man with an orange head walking towards the house. Silly me! A most excellent photo with very interesting elements!
bmac62
Very nice Sandra...give Trevor a pet for me the next time you trip over him sleeping in the yard:)
OrphanedSoul
Quite beautiful and informitive, I love this fruit and I think your dog is guarding that spot very well! Excellent capture!
1358
nostalgia for a past still dreamt, simpler times, simpler worries... scratch Trevor behind the ear for me! stellar image!
0rest4wicked
Lovely feel to this! Thought I recognized that fruit. The ones here in North America are to tough for anything but cookies
ShadowsNTime
Lol! Poor Trevor:-) Its a beautiful place, and a lovely photo! I remember when I was a child that sometimes grandma warmed bricks and large stones to put at the foot of the bed to warm it, we lived for a time in a cabin and so had only a wood stove in the main kitchen/living room. Boy some of the food made on those old stoves was most excellent!
virginiese
very nice place to live. Thanks for sharing
jocko500
this is a wonderful place
e-brink
Excellent! Great depth of field.