Harvest Time!
Went out to the property today to check out the orchards. It had been a while since we had been out there and I figured there would probably be some fruit to pick - I was right :-)
I picked a laundry basket full of fruit - about half of it apples (I think we have 2 or 3 varieties - the brilliant red ones remind me of the poison apple in Snow White - with perfect white flesh and the most amazing brilliant red skin I've ever seen) and the other half pears, with some italian prunes thrown in for good measure (most of those were rotten already but there were a few good ones!). There appear to be plenty of apples for us and the deer to be quite contented, which is nice. We have an unspoken agreement - they get the low hanging apples and the stuff that falls on the ground, and we get the apples in the upper branches. It appears that deer don't like pears at all - just apples. Fine by me!
Finished picking just as it started raining, promptly got home, and made a pie! My mom's recipe (which I believe has traced its origins to the Joy of Cooking)
Mmm.... :-)