Topic: apples
The Norland apples are beginning to ripen. They never get entirely red, so it's easy to wait too long. The ones we've picked, although blushed, were still a mite green-tasting.
The Rescue apples are not far behind. The Dolgo crabapples are all still green.
The Evans (Bali) cherries have been ripening, and we pick and eat them immediately when they turn red. There's not enough to preserve. We'll probably get a quart in total from the two trees, a 12-foot and an 8-foot. But they're only a few years old.
Some Red Sun sunflower blooms, the white flowers from my Galego Greens (grown from seed we bought in Spain in 2000 and hope to produce seeds) and the laden branches of the Norland are juxtaposed in a riotous profusion of end-of-season fertility. It's both gratifying to see such abundance and energy, but a bit sad to know it will be over soon.
