First apple
Of the three tiny apple trees I planted this spring, one, the Enterprise apple tree, miraculously bore a single apple two years ahead of schedule. I’d been watching the fruit mature all along - at least until life became significantly more hectic a couple of weeks ago and the last of the beans turned to leather britches on the vine. Yesterday I found the apple fully ripe and fallen from the branch. I peeled and sliced it and sampled a bite of harvests to come. No bland store-bought apple this. It was juicy and crisp and intensely flavorful - sweet, spicy, and tart all at once. I cannot imagine a better thing to do with a bit of yard than to grow the likes of this.
Searchie wrote:
I know apples like that, too. There’s an orchard in the Berkshires that produces MacIntosh apples that are sweet-sour-tangy-crisp-juicy. They’re one of the tastes that remind me of home.
Posted on 05-Sep-07 at 11:33 pm | Permalink
Kat wrote:
Oooh, jealous! I can’t wait until I’m staying in one place long enough to plant apple trees.
Posted on 06-Sep-07 at 10:19 pm | Permalink
MindSpin wrote:
Sometimes you realize you may have just tasted something for the first time, though you’ve been eating imitations for years.
Posted on 08-Sep-07 at 4:01 pm | Permalink
Migs wrote:
This, this is the reason why it is such a pleasure to pay the customary visit to your site. While I do not submit comments as often as I want to, I will never get quite enough of these beautiful moments - chronicled in a unique, simple, honest and certainly poetic way, though never with strain or artifice. Thank you for sharing. (Though I wish I had a bite of that apple.)
Posted on 19-Sep-07 at 12:41 pm | Permalink