Even if I am in the thick of a chaotic schedule, I still love to find time to attend to my apple tree. I find it calming to spend time fertilizing, pruning, and treating my tree.
However, I've had all the time in the world recently, and I haven't put in time with my tree. There's a lot of other projects around the house that I haven't finished either. When I have nothing but free time, I find it difficult to accomplish anything I should be doing.
This week, however, my apples were fully ripened and needing to be picked. I was feeling sickly and generally unmotivated, but it was a nice day and I wasn't particularly interested in seeing how many job leads hadn't gotten back to me.
I got out my ladder, bushel basket, and began picking through branches sorting out the apples for pies [good apples] and saucing [blemished apples]. As the afternoon turned to evening, many of my neighbors had passed by, paying their compliments to the tree and it's yield. I always felt blessed by the apple tree, and it had been wonderful being able to bless my neighbors with free apples. By the end of the day, my mood had improved, and the autumn sunset provided a beautiful backdrop to finish to.
Before I put away my ladder and baskets, I snapped some pictures. Now I'm posting them here. Because that's what blogs are for.
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