The Old Apple Tree

 

Original Photograph 'The Old Apple Tree' by RLHall, ArtfulExpress

This is one of the apple trees surrounding our cabin, an old orchard that still produces delicious apples, though small ~ the trees have been neglected for many years but they are beautiful all year round . . .

Spring blossoms, summer foliage, fruit, fall colors and interesting ancient looking shapes and textures against the white winter snow. Not to mention the perfume of the flowering trees and the taste and smell of warm apple crisp on a cool frosty night :-)

   

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb

I am not bound for any public place,

but for ground of my own

where I have planted vines and orchard trees,

and in the heat of the day climbed up

into the healing shadow of the woods.

~ Wendell Berry