If the falling leaves and ripening apples are any indication, fall has definitely arrived here at Two Frog Home.
Look at the color of that leaf! Oh, I do love the changing leaves and this morning I noticed the tamaracks were changing to yellow up on the mountainsides. Soon the peaks will be capped in snow and I do love the mix of yellow and green mountainsides leading up to snow-capped peaks in front of that Montana big sky.
That bucket of apples is such a delight, I don’t mind saying. Both Jeff and I munched on one immediately when they came inside, some of the others were dehydrated, some were turned into the first apple crisp of the season, and the rest are sitting on the table to be eaten from freely. Plenty more will be dehydrated, sauced, given away, and canned up in various other forms. This year we’re also planning on taking some to be turned into cider, thanks to the Essential Stuff Project’s Cider Press at the Tamarack Festival (if you’re local and planning on going, let me know so we can be sure to say hi).
We leave the majority of the windfall apples on the ground for the local deer and turkey population, in the hope that they get “trained” to look for the apples and avoid testing our garden fence. We pick any remaining up before the snow flies and compost and/or toss some in the woods across the street to give the wildlife a little to eat during the long winter ahead.
How is fall (or spring if you’re in the southern hemisphere) showing itself to you these days?
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Those Apples looked delicious…I only put away some “Golden Delicious” They were the only ones available at the time..hope they make a nice cobbler. I hope my trees do some growing and produce next year. Ginny
Mmmmm…. Apple Crisp! We have no apple trees now, but I did growing up. I remember putting out plywood covered in white sheets on saw horses and spreading apple slices out to dry in the sun. Mom would make a dozen pies and freeze them whole, and jars of apple sauce and apple butter. I remember the fried pies she would make from the dried apples, yummm…
Everything is still green but very dry here with a high of 94 today. Looking forward to autumn weather, hopefully sometime soon!
Have a groovy day!
Chris……………………………….
Mmm, apple crisp.
Fall seems to be here, even in Florida–it’s not much cooler but it is a bit drier, and there’s that subtle “something” in the air that says fall is coming. I have a proofreading deadline looming, but once I get past that I think I may be compelled by the lovely weather to do a big fall cleaning. I also need to get the rest of my fall garden in!
I so wish I had an apple tree. I always can a bunch of apple sauce for the winter and I just went to buy some apples. They were not as economical as I hoped, I wish I could go outside and pick some. Your photo is so perfectly autumn!
Love the photo ! Here at Hickery Holler we have been putting by apples for a couple weeks. I have made apple chips in the dehydrator and apple sauce for my grandchildren and apple syrup for pancakes and even canned and froze some apple pie filling. It has been a good year for apples and with 3 trees we have plenty left !