apples

 33 degrees yesterday morning. That was close. Turning the heat on in the car in the morning. Closing windows at night. Maples trees turning a lighter shade of green as chlorophyll exits tree leaves and heads for the roots.

We have a number of apple trees on our property. Almost all of them are of the non-cultivated variety. Apple seeds came from somewhere and eventually turned into trees. I enjoy having them here as they help feed wild animals in the fall and winter. Two of these trees are in our yard and are about 30 yards apart. One of them is full of apples and the other only has a few. This is not always the case. Some years they both produce apples more or less equally. So how it can be that there is such disparity this year is hard for me to understand. The only apple tree that was probably actually planted by a human being is the one producing a lot of apples this year. They don't look like store bought apples, but they taste pretty good.

Allyn has been gathering them this year and making applesauce.