Images of edible sweet chestnuts

These images are of edible sweet chestnuts from the Castanea sativa tree species.   To compare these with non-edible chestnut follow this link.

Walk though a Chestnut grove in November

 In went for a walk today with some friends though a Sweet Chestnut grove about an hours drive west of Madrid, Spain.

 Most of these images speak for themselves.  The image above stood out to me as the eight tree trunks were all growing out of the cut stump of one old Chestnut tree.

 This man in this picture was raking the leaves into piles and then burning them.  An occasional sweet chestnut would end up in the fire which would send out a muted popping sound every 10 to 15 seconds.

 This family was busy collecting the sweet chestnuts, filling large sacks and getting them ready to go into town to sell.

This just stood out to me as a pleasant country fall scene.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them!

New Christmas Tree Scroll Ornaments from Papuan Lass

Christmas ornament scrolls of Greek and Hebrew Scripture portions relating the Biblical Christmas story.

Vintage Christmas carols printed on fine parchment paper, shaped it and burned the edges. The entire ornament is sprayed with clear acrylic sealer to preserve the ornament.

Gift certificates

Non-edible Chestnuts

 This is the time of year that I get a lot of comments on my post "Edible chestnuts vs. Horse chestnuts" with all kinds of stories people who have tried to eat Horse Chestnuts thinking that they were edible chestnuts.  The images here are of the NON-EDIBLE Horse Chestnuts.