Sigh. I’d love to wake up to this view each morning.
Sigh. Barn Lust is as bad as ever. We really need to sort out how to make this barn ours.
Check out the daytime moon and the hops. If we ever get through this cider project maybe we’ll move on to beer.
As fun as those pick you own apple places with pie and corn mazes look, I promise this was better. Ryan says it was like the kind of exploring you do when you’re 12. I think he’s right. It made me want to build a tree fort and refuse to go in for dinner. We headed out in to fields in the morning only coming back to eat every once and a while. Poor Becca was worn right out by our antics.
The trees are all a little different but quite a few are huge full sized ones and we took turns falling out of this one. Ryan is the yellow smudge in the middle of this photo.
To add to our adventure, the blackthorn has escaped the hedgerows and seems to have developed a relationship with the apple trees, scratching and spiking anyone who dares to pick too many apples. I have read that you can use these dreadful berries to make wine if anyone wants to forage next year. (More about the blackthorn later in the week).
On a related note, check out the Hawthorn Honey Black Locust Tree (thanks Jenn and Almerinda). There are 3 of these “antique” trees on the property. The modern ones don’t have the spikes necessary to make the hedgerows impassable to cattle. Ouch!
Jenn says
Sounds like a spectacular adventure! I love old apples and apple-tasting. On a side note, I think the thorny tree you called a hawthorn might be a honey locust.
And I love the photo of your sleeping child – makes me want to find a patch of sun for napping!
Laura says
Thanks Jenn, you're right . I've corrected it. I was stuck on those blackthorns
Paige (Final Clothes-Out) says
That sounds like a great time! I was just telling my husband yesterday that we need to have an outdoorsy fall adventure.
AsteropeBC says
What beautiful photos! This sounds like a simply wonderful adventure. My grandparents have some land. There is an old spur of railroad track on it. Along the track there are dozens of apple trees that sprang up from the apple cores the rail road workers threw to the side as they were building the track. I love the huge variety. Reading your post makes me want go check on them and see how they are doing
Angela (Cottage Magpie) says
Just beautiful! We've had nothing but rain here and I've been hoping for a break so we can go picking. We'll have to just go anyway, I think! My mouth is watering thinking of all those amazing varieties.
~Angela~
Laura says
Those rail side apple trees need to be in a novel!