Garden/farm going into hibernation

It's been a while since I posted the last one. Not very busy but still involved in the garden/farm work.  

The persimmon at a corner of yard is getting ripened. Not as usual, crows won't come to enjoy them. Possibly, owing to our kitty making patrol there in the day time. I am not sure. Sliced persimmon is put in the salad.

Fall/winter vegetables are growing even though some are eaten by worms. Not very bad. Chinese cabbage. It may become a material for a hot pot dish this winter. The other vegetables like onion, broccoli, cabbage, leek or a few kinds of beans are growing as well. Some of them will go through the winter and be grown early in next spring.

This camellia is coming out as usual in this season in a year. This tree is 30 or 40 years old. As told before, it was planted by my father. I could picture my parents watching these trees like this from their house on a peaceful day years ago when they were alive.

As a whole, every plant or weed is getting inactive and slowly growing if any. The garden is coming into hibernation until next spring. I will be less hustling in the garden/farm for a while.

Three taro plants were harvested. Well grown even though not cared for so much. I have cooked some of them with chicken while taro was fresh.

Listening to the intermezzos by Brahms in his last part of life as a composer. This one, OP119-1, makes my heart tremble. As I introduced his OP118-1 as a music of solitude before, an image Brahms was composing this piece all alone with his piano, giving up composing complicated orchestral or chamber music works. 

https://youtu.be/lPTCSnHfwxs

Brahms has written to Clara Schumann that he wanted to compose this piece for her. It should not be emphasized too much to play it as slow as possible, as he said. He also says it is a music of melancholy. Each dissonant featured in it should sound even like sensual. I could not really understand the sensual characteristics but feel the beginning theme as if we were floating in the air. This feature of frequently used dissonant and apparently losing tonality may usher in the modern atonality music blooming in Vienna in the early 20th century.

Anyway, it is a music suitable for this season.