apple picking

When I was growing up my family had a mini apple orchard in our backyard. I was spoiled with homemade apple crisp and applesauce throughout every fall. I’m not so lucky to have apple trees in my own yard now, or even enough sunlight to support them if I tried, but we do have lots of orchards in our area.

We went apple picking this morning, and it was a perfect day for it, cool, but sunny. When we got there, we decided to go check out one of the fields a little further away, assuming the close by trees would be fairly well picked over. It was a great decision! I’ve never in my life seen such huge gorgeous apples, nor trees so full of them.

Seriously, every single branch looked just like this one.

The woman working there said it was a bumper crop. Not only did the apples love the rainy weather we had in July, but the owners had brought in extra bees to help pollinate and boy did they ever pollinate! (Did you know there’s been a bee shortage in New England for the last few years?)

Btw, they taste as good as they look too. Those apples were truly glorious.

The scent of fresh cinnamon applesauce is permeating everything in my house right now. I bet if you scratch your screen you can sniff it. ;) I’m definitely making apple crisp later this week. Who’s coming over with the vanilla ice cream?

September 20, 2009 | Filed Under blogging, food, life Tagged , , ,

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10 Responses to “apple picking”

  1. Bejewell on September 20th, 2009 8:08 pm

    Now craving apple pie. Desperately.

  2. Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach on September 21st, 2009 3:15 am

    I love the scent of apples and cinnamon - it freshens up the whole kitchen!

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  4. Leighann of Multi-Minding Mom on September 21st, 2009 7:32 am

    yum!

    I made apple butter over the weekend, something I’ve never done before. (Check my blog this Friday for the recipe.)

  5. moonspun on September 21st, 2009 11:11 am

    That first picture is stunning. I’ll be over with the Ben and Jerry’s! :-)

  6. Carla on September 21st, 2009 11:36 am

    I love picking fresh apples and making stuff. Momma & Daddy used to have two apple trees in their yard and we would pick, make apple pies, apple jelly and applesauce. YUMMY!

  7. Desiree - Mother Musing on September 21st, 2009 2:38 pm

    Awesome photos… and please can you ship me some of that apple crisp when it’s ready?!! Please?! It sounds heavenly.

    Thanks for sharing. Now I’m really hungry! :)~
    Ciao

  8. Lisa @ Boondock Ramblings on September 22nd, 2009 10:21 am

    There has actually been a bee shortage everywhere. Our bees are dying off because of various diseases and mites. I only know this because I just did a story on it for our newspaper. I’m not really that smart. :-)

    Anyhow, awesome photos and that is something I would love to do! I love those crisp, tart apples from an orchard!

  9. Melissa on September 23rd, 2009 6:27 am

    Did you go to the Currier? We were there not too long ago!

  10. mumma boo on September 23rd, 2009 8:42 am

    Gorgeous photos! You certainly had a great day for it! I love apple-picking. There’s a little orchard about 10 minutes from us that always has the best apples in the area. It’s never too crowded and has a great country store. This is by far my favorite time of year!