I am thankful for clear skies
and summer flowers.
After a lot of rain and extreme temperatures, yesterday we had clear, moderate weather. A great day to spend outside in the yard. For this weather and the chance to enjoy our flowers, I am thankful
Lovely photos and lots of thanksgivings! We all have much to appreciate.
ReplyDeleteYes, many things to be thankful for when we take a second look or take time to smell the roses.
DeleteYour flowers and fruit are doing well. Are the apples good for eating?
ReplyDeleteThat's a good question that we don't know the answer to yet. When we looked at the house we saw yellow apples on one tree and red on another, but they were gone by the time we bought it. Last year, our first summer here, we had no apples after we had the trees trimmed. This year we have apples on part of the yellow apple tree and a few on the red. I know that apples require a lot of work at various stages of development to get apples that are good enough to eat, but we don't know what that is. More study is needed. So we'll see. Hopefully, they will at least good enough to make applesauce from.
DeleteMy parents used to have apple trees on their property. I think it was planted by a previous owner. They never really did anything with them and I don't remember using the apples (which is surprising, now that I think on it, as I know that finances were tight for many years and they had a large garden). My husband tried making applesauce from them one year and it was ok from one of the trees but another tree had awful tasting apples and being made into sauce didn't improve the flavor!
DeleteIt's hard to imagine apples having an awful flavor. I wonder what that was about. We made a lot of applesauce growing up, but we got the apples from apples that dropped from other people's trees. My father would gather them and we would make applesauce and can it. I can remember one time in high school when we had to can a whole canner load full every night after school for a month. But what ever we had, it was good. We never used sugar, so sometimes it was tart, but that was easy to fix with a little adder sugar when you ate it.
DeleteI don't mind bland flavor in apples as you can fix that with a little lemon juice or cider vinegar. These apples also had the weirdest texture--I'm not sure I can describe it--but since they were freebies, I didn't feel I had to eat the applesauce. Hubby makes applesauce around here and he never adds sugar, but the kids and I beg for spices, as he prefers it without.
DeleteThose are beautiful beautiful photos!
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely photos! Lots to be thankful for! I hope you will be able to use those apples from your tree!
ReplyDeleteI do have a lot to be thankful for and this post is just a small slice of them. I hope in a couple of months I can say I'm thankful for the apples I've had to eat from our trees. :)
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