The Blair House Museum (of apples)

The museum was named after the station's first superintendent, Dr. William Saxby Blair. Constructed in 1911, the house served as the superintendents' residence until 1979. The house was built to accommodate more than a single family. For 70 years this was a private residence.
http://www.nsapples.com/museumb.htm

On May 29, 1981, during the celebration of the 50th Apple Blossom Festival, the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Association finally opened the Blair House museum to the public. The museum was created to preserve and display the history of the apple growing industry and of the Research Station. It tells the history of the apple industry in Nova Scotia through numerous pictures, stories and artifacts. Apple barrel making tools, apple baskets, apple peelers and even an old sprayer, show how things were done over a half-century ago.

Die Paradiesapfel

This is a Google translation of the website for a German pomology group called NABU that is apple and pear focused. (I think) It's readable but, …Probably makes more sense in the original German.


"The old sorts of apples and pears, but also game fruit places such as elders, Mispel and Speierling are not only rediscovered today. On the basis splendourful illustrations from old fruit books the book selected fruit places presents, its history and its use. Old and new prescriptions, legends, poems, stories and customs make the book a read pleasure for Geniesser and nature friends."


It includes the legend of the Paradiesapfel

"Paradiesapfel the fertility symbol, dear symbol and life symbol, blows over the apple always also the breath of condemnation and death. Its tight-erotic appearance and sweet succulence serve the seduction. But already the first bite into the first apple of the tree of the knowledge brought in Adam and Eve the expulsion out of the paradise. (...)Die Landschaftsplanerin Erika scissors mouth introduces not only the splendor and glory of old apple sorts and pears sorts in its book based on centuries of old botanical picture books, but rather roves generally through the fruit worlds and berries worlds how they can grew and still grow once in gardens and free wild. In addition it tells fruit myths and berries fairy tale and gives prescriptions to win by approximately Berberitzen-syrup or to soften pigeons with Borsdorfer apples slowly yield".

Handfull of Lady Apples

Foodnetwork.com says
"A tiny apple that can range in color from brilliant red to yellow with generous red blushing. Its flesh is sweet-tart and it can be eaten raw or cooked. Fresh lady apples are available during the winter months. They're also available canned, and are widely used for garnishing purposes."

They, like most recipe books that refer to them at all refer to them as a garnish. There is a reason for this...


... they taste aweful, not astringent, not bitter but gamey and foul more like spoiled meatloaf than a crabapple. Truly a vile apple.

Pete loves apples

http://www.producepete.com/shows/apples.html

"I love apple season. There are few things better than a good apple eaten out of hand. Whether the flesh is mild and swweet or tart, and winey, when you bite into it, a fresh-picked apple will make a crisp cracking sound and you'll get a spurt of juice. "

Nobody respects the York Apple

Its a hard apple, like a Winesap but not tart at all. They are difficult to grow, being finicky about pruning and spraying. The man told me it was their first good crop in years. But when you get it right , you know it. The bite is hard, like its not ripe but then with persistent chewing the smooth taste like its been spiked with cream and butterscotch comes out. Appropriately its a desert apple.

Route 29 north somewhere near Lynchburg. Its called the apple shed and the very knowledgable man also gave me a fresh Winesap just for the sampling. That one was tart as rhubarb and also a wonder.

Mmmm. Canadian Apples

Photo of canadian apples by Zenia Cornell

Cider Days are upon us...

Cider Days is coming up: http://www.ciderday.org/

Actually it's weeks away but I'm counting down. This year the Franklin County, Massachusetts Cider Days festival falls on November 4th & 5th. I'm hoping to visit at least part of it this year.

What I want is to find an orchard that sells untreated cider. They pasturize almost everything these days so that nobody dies of E-Coli poisoning somthing they don't do with Spinach. Of course originally cider meant HARD cider which was alcoholic. Its only recently yankees began to favor beer over cider. Like beer, cider has under six or seven percent alcohol and tastes best with some sparkle

The fest is for all who love apples, fresh or hard cider, apple cuisine, apple orchards or just being in New England in the fall. There is a small charge for some of the activities but there is no admission for the self-guided tour of orchards.

Orchards have given food and drink to New England for centuries. It is here that apples grow flavorful and juicy. Among those apple varieties Baldwin, Newton Pippin, Roxbury Russet were bred here.

The Fuji.

Red Delicious + Ralls Janet, an unexpected combination... The Red Delicious is grainy and mealy and all in all a poor excuse for an apple.

The Ralls Janet however is an ancient apple pre 1800 from France. It's a greenish-yellow, covered with pinkish red, dark red striping medium to large; yellowish flesh, fine-grained, crisp and juicy; excellent keeper. It's a late season apple and I've never had one.

Survival of the Crispest

Mara Zepeda and I don't know each other, but we should.
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=13133

"My apple-eating experience usually unfolds in seven distinct stages: 1) extended and thoroughly useless examination of product; 2) blind hope; 3) tentative sampling; 4) assessment; 5) verdict—mealy; 6) disgust, revulsion, disavowal of all apples; 7) three-month apple hiatus. Repeat."

Eli Kochalka picks an Apple

Another reason to read Kochalka every day.
www.americanelf.com

The Honeycrisp.

They claim it's a Honey Gold + Macoun... but that's not what they say in Minneapolis. Supposedly it came from a bag of junk seeds. Ther eis a certain ammount of random breeding allowed at the orchards... things left to chance. This was one of them. Fact is, it was introduced in 1991 by the University of Minnesota breeders at Excelsior, MN.

Thsi blogger likes them too:
http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000331.html

In the corner of the pantry

We cleaned out Grandma's pantry. Old beans, canned beets, boxes of noodles.. it was well-stocked. The wooden sleves had marks where cans had slid into familiar rows over and over like consistent for decades. We cleaned it out. The expired lentils. The sprouting potatos. Even the long neglected sad-looking beets. In the back was a jar of Apple Cider jelly.

It looked like a jar of coal tar. It was black and fairly old. My cousin informed me that the orchard that made it no longer operated. I took it home for a taste. The blackness concerned me. It could have turned. The blackness might not be carmelized fructose but actually be black mold spores that could kill me.

I tasted it anyway. It was strong strong strong. The apple taste was so concentrated as to over power any mortal muffin, and simple pancake. Somehow in it's veractity it no longer tasted like apple as far as the image of apple allowed in my mind which made be debate why intensity would do such a thing to an idea. But it certainly did. and it did taste good. I tried diluting it in simple syrup but it was too mighty. It's in my pantry now calling me thru the cheap particle board facade. Nothing tastes like this but real apple cider jelly. Nothing. I haven't tried the phone number. I may yet see if they have a few left rollign around in their own pantry.

Apple related ephemera

What is there to say about a cheap immitation apple product. Only that it is a pale immitaiton or that it reminds you of all the good things in the absence of the real thing?

Stephen King said that
"Each life makes its own immitation of immortality."

The apple as an icon and as a metaphor is immortal and so it lives on beyond us and beyond the very disposable plasitic packaging.

The marketing Director of Pepsi, Mr. W Bill Monro said that "Imitation is the sincerest form of collective stupidity.” And in that view I wasted my four dollars, but is it valid or is he downgrading the value of mutual concensus? It's also been said wisely that mutual concensus is truth. If that is so, then he can be disregarded as he disagrees with us.

John Stuart Mill said that "All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. " Immitation is one of those fruits and on that topic he is heutral or mum. The oldest quote is that immitation is the sincerest form of flattery (or some phrase derivation thereof) If that is so, this cannot be so sincere as this slice of pie was mediocre and as Paramahansa Yogananda once said "Most people imitate others. You should be original, and whatever you do, do well. " In corollary poor imitation is an insult. Which seems to reccomend the real thing more than any other.

Cinnamon Apple Tea

I tore open the packet and dumped the cinnamon and randered apple bits directly into the kettle. I allowed it to boil for two hours on medium heat allowing the smell to fill the room and then the home. I boilt it longer than could possible leave the brew edible. But edible was not the purpose.

All in all its not worth drinking. Watery, dry from the cinnamon and a mite bitter. But the smell it does the heart good. It's a few weeks short of even the Northern Spys ripening and there are no apples to be had any other way.

The Fujis and Braeburns are all imported from New Zealand and the cider was frozen last fall, only defrosted in the back of the grocery a week ago. It's a mild substitute but it reminds just fine.

Jewish Apple Cake

It tastes more like honey than apples. It's interesting to the palate that the apples have seeped all of their flavor into the cake and they themselves are vacant. But their texture is intact but more dry than the raw fruit and much more so than a pie.

Zeiglers cider

At Zeigler's they follow a family apple cider recipe handed down from one generation to the next for over 73 years. They custom blend a variety of sweet and tart apples in the way they have for generations. Every batch of cider is taste-tested to maintain their high standards high standards as has always been a Family Tradition.
I find it a bit astringent myself, but that would accurately reflect a cider receipie from almost 100 years ago. On the other side of this century cider was aged like wine to render it's sugar to alcohol. A bit of bitterness blends nicely then.

APPLE FACT #136

Producing one apple requires the energy of about 50 leaves of an apple tree.

Home of the Big Red Apple

Every year Cornelia, known as "Home of the Big Red Apple" gears up to host the Big Red Apple Festival. The Festival features a variety of arts and crafts booths, a fine arts exhibition in the newly-remodeled Cornelia Community House, entertainment, food vendors, children's events, a horseshoe tournament, 5k run, a fun walk, hayrides, an antique car cruise-in and a bluegrass music jam. http://www.beentheresawthat.com/

Lander Wyoming is the Apple City

Lander is a city in Fremont County, in the Riverton metro area. It is the county seat. The community is in the Mountain Standard time zone.

Apple Hill Chamber music

http://www.applehill.org/

Apple Hill's first international Playing for Peace Project was in 1988, when the Apple Hill Chamber Players toured Israel under the auspices of the US State Department and the US Embassy in Israel. The tour consisted of public Apple Hill Chamber Players concerts; private, US Ambassador hosted AHCP concerts; workshops; and the awarding, with the US Ambassador presiding, of Playing for Peace scholarships – full tuition, room, board, and transportation expenses for one – month's participation and study in the 1988 Apple Hill Summer Festival in New Hampshire – to Israeli Jewish and Israeli Arab students.

Founded in 1973, the Apple Hill Chamber Players are the performing artists and faculty for the internationally celebrated Apple Hill Festival in East Sullivan, NH, USA, where they are joined by professional, student, and amateur participants of all ages and backgrounds from all over the US and around the world.

Shot an Apple

It's perhaps the most famous dye transfer photograph. It's Harold Edgerton's .30 Bullet Piercing an Apple, circa 1964. High-speed cinematography was the key to “Doc” Edgerton’s remarkable series of motion studies, begun in the 1930’s. This much loved M.I.T. professor was the 20th Century Muybridge in his invention of the stroboscope which he used for studying the motions of life.

Yakima Washington Apples

An original Hill Top brand apple label from Yakima Washington. Nice cool colors mixed with red. Looks good framed, fir trees, snow capped mountains aprox 10 X 9 inches. Circa 1940-50s.

The Apple family

Appleton magazine

It was published by D. Appleton & Co. beginning in the year 1900. Obviously named for it's publisher this slightly ego-satisfying periodical ran for less than a decade. Issues are understabdably rare. It retailed for 15 cents; that's about $3.00 in todays dollars.

It was Mr. Appletons second atempt at printed gratification via an eponymus logo. His first attempt, "Appleton's Journal" was Printed 1869 – Dec-1881 in the UK. It actually ran as a weekly 3-Apr-1869 – 26-Jun-1876 after which it became a monthly.

Songs of Songs 7:8

Apples appear three times in the bible.

Songs of Songs 7:8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples.

Apple weevil

Adult: 4.5 to 5.0 mm long.
Body: black-brown coat, yellowy body.
Host plant: apple.
Mean fecundity: 25 eggs in 4 to 5 weeks.
Egg: time until hatching, 4 to 12 days.
Larva: developmental duration, 3 weeks.



Since the larva feeds on the plant's reproductive parts, does not open and takes on a "clove-like" appearance (capped blossom). If bud-bursting is slow (cold spring), the apple weevil can lay alits eggs in buds at the prefered stage. In this case, the damage is much more serious. In years when apple bossom is abundantputs out abundant flowers, the damage done is limited and the weevil even acts as natural, and beneficial, "thinner" (apple blossom is abundant once every two years). A close watch should be kept on apple trees close to woods or abandoned orchards.

The battle of the orchards

During World War II students at Central Washington College of Education (now Central Washington University) helped harvest fruit during war related labor shortages. Samuel R. Mohler's The First 75 Years: A History of Central Washington State College states:


"Because of the labor shortage in the apple orchards of the region in the fall of 1942, students voted by an overwhelming majority to close school for three days. Of 540 students and faculty, 375 volunteered for the 'battle of the orchards' and were sent where most needed, principally to the areas near Chelan, Yakima, Okanogan, and Ellensburg. Altogether they picked nearly 36,000 boxes of apples worth almost $60,000, most of which would otherwise have been lost, since cold weather came early that year. The next year college classes began a week early so that the apple harvest holiday would not take school time"

http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7554

It was not the first "battle" so named. In 1862, the Third Brigade, familiarly known as the Jersey Brigade, fought a seven day "battle of the Orchards" near albany under a Colonel Carr.

Halcyon Days

"As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!The brooding and blissful halcyon days."

-Walt Whitman, Halcyon Days

Arkansas Apple Festival

Lincoln is a small town lying 20 miles southwest of Fayetteville on U.S. Highway 62, and about 8 miles from the border of Oklahoma. The roots of Lincoln are historically tangled with the roots of the apple trees that fostered it. In other words, Apples made the town.
W. G. Vincenheller was the first big-time apple-buyer in this part of the state and was not only the Director of the Experiment Station, but also president of the Arkansas State Horticultural Society. He built a cold storage plant on the old Mark Bean Farm with walls three feet thick.
Apples were either dried in a fruit evaporato,r barreled and shopped by railroad or peddled out west. http://www.arkansasapplefestival.org

Sacks of dried fruit were loaded on wagons, the children sat on top, and the whole family got to go to town that fall. Thee sales of apples were depended upon to clothe the family and provide most of the commodities for another year. It was a staple food, but also a staple crop not unlike cotton.

On our nations bicentennial Lincoln decided to begin annually celebrating the fruit that founded their town. It was an easy decision to make. Activities include an apple core throwing contest, a beauty pagent, live dulcimer music and of course local apples.

The Crazy Apple

Scientific Name: European Mandrake

Other Names: Atropa mandragora, Dudaim, Herb of Circe, Majnoon, Mandragora, Mandragora officinalis, Mandragora vernalis, Mandrake, Pome Di Tchin, Satan's Apple, Sorcerer's Root, True Mandrake, Witch's Manikin ...Crazy Apple

European mandrake contains several chemicals, including atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine, from a group known as tropane alkaloids. These alkaloids have narrow therapeutic ranges, which means that a very small decrease in the dose could make the drug utterly ineffective, and that a small increase could raise the risk of side effects. This can in clude paralysis among other nasties.

I.E. a potentially harmful dose is not much higher than an effective dose.

Historically, a major use of European mandrake has been to treat asthma and other breathing problems. The alkaloids in European mandrake are thought to reduce secretions in all parts of the body, including the lungs. One possible result is that lung congestion may be lessened. Additionally, the tropane alkaloid component may relax muscles in the bronchial tubes, making breathing easier. Although newer prescription medicines use different kinds of chemicals, alkaloids similar to those found in European mandrake were formerly used in prescription medicines to treat asthma. Those drugs have mostly been replaced with safer and more effective products.

Legend and superstition surround the mandrake. The root of the mandrake has a peculiar shape, resembling human limbs or even a complete body. The strange shape of the mandrake’s root contributed to its reputation as a magical, and dangerous, plant. Many people believed that the mandrake root screamed as it was pulled from the ground. To dig up the mandrake and hear its cries meant certain death, so ancient herbalists instructed people to tie a dog to the mandrake and force the animal to pull it up, thereby killing the dog and saving themselves.

more Here

Then your apples all is gethered

The apple reference is fleeting. But the idea of completion, of rest following the harvest is not.
The notion lingers, fully engorged in that single phrase "your apples all is gethered"

When the Frost Is On The Punkin
by James Whitcomb Riley

When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock,
And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin' turkey-cock,
And the clackin' of the guineys, and the cluckin' of the hens,
And the rooster's hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;

O, it's then's the times a feller is a-feelin' at his best,
With the risin' sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,
As he leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to feed the stock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

They's something kindo' harty-like about the atmusfere
When the heat of summer's over and the coolin' fall is here --
Of course we miss the flowers, and the blossums on the trees,
And the mumble of the hummin'-birds and buzzin' of the bees;

But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze
Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days
Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock --
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

The husky, rusty russel of the tossels of the corn,
And the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn;
The stubble in the furries -- kindo' lonesome-like, but still
A-preachin' sermuns to us of the barns they growed to fill;

The strawstack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed;
The hosses in theyr stalls below -- the clover over-head!
-- O, it sets my hart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock!

Then your apples all is gethered, and the ones a feller keeps
Is poured around the celler-floor in red and yeller heaps;
And your cider-makin' 's over, and your wimmern-folks is through
With their mince and apple-butter, and theyr souse and saussage, too! ...

I don't know how to tell it -- but ef sich a thing could be
As the Angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me --
I'd want to 'commodate 'em -- all the whole-indurin' flock --
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock!

Red Apple Diner

Red Apple Diner, Ridgefield Park, NJ

Is it still there? I have no idea. But to be sure, they had the right idea.

Scrumpy Jack

Cider was once more popular than water in all western nations. Today it remains that way in the UK. but has sadly fallen in popularity in the U.S. It's universal appeal wasn't just constant drunkeness, it was the dirty local water. Booze was safer to drink than water due to wide spread contamination by human or animal faeces or urine containing pathogenic bacteria or viruses; include cholera, typhoid, amoebic and bacillary dysentery. I'd drink cider too.

Capitol Apples

Sadly our capitol was never known for its apples.

Apple perfume

It has been attempted many times.

I can name a few here:
AVON Royal Apple Bird of Paradise Cologne
Annick Goutal Parfum
Sentier Apple Cider Parfum
ätherisches Parfum-Oel
Restposeten Eau de Parfum - aepl
dura parfum maisong de apple
DKNY Be Delicious
Bleikristall Apfel Parfum

and many many others. None compare to the complexity of the fruit itself of course.

Otomo Katsuhiso's Apple Paradise

Who is Otomo Katsuhiso and what is apple paradise?

The hell if I know. But it has soething to do with a hippo walking upright like a man. Is it post-surrealism? is it anime? manga? Otomo also lent his sweat and ink to the much more famed Akira series. His themes are post-apocalyptic and dark. His world is a future Japan as a post-nuclear totalitarian state. It is said this came as a result of his exposure to the French author Mebius.

i can find nothing about this online written in english. If you do know, feel free to enlighten me.

HANSEL AND GRETEL's apples

It sounds like a fine breakfast to me. Milk, Pancakes, apples and nuts. I dont put apples in my pancakes incidently but am known to experiment with the occasional palmful of blueberries.

She took them both by the hand,and led them into her little house. Then good food was set before them, milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts. Afterwards two pretty little beds were covered with clean white linen, and Hansel and Gretel lay down in them, and thought they were in heaven.

To the children pancakes and apples were heaven, see that word? Heaven. Of course the woman went to to try to cook and eat the children but not with apples.

Apple Pancakes are a wonderment, I am not skilled enough to produce one worthy of the apple. This below recepie copped from http://www.dicarlofood.com/. It seems overtly heavy but you jet the gist. The best I ever head were at http://www.originalpancakehouse.com/ but that receipie is a mystery.


Apple Pancake
Yield 12 servings
pancake instruction first, then the topping.

Ingredients:
18 ea. Eggs, large30 oz.
Milk, whole13 oz. Flour,
all purpose5 oz. white sugar
1/2 oz. vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Cinnamon

Directions:
1. Beat the eggs in a large stainless bowl.
2. Whisk the milk into the eggs.
3. Gradually whisk in the flour and sugar, beat until smooth.
4. Stir in the vanilla, salt and cinnamon.
5. Refrigerate until needed.

Ingredients:
12 oz. Butter
72 oz. Roasted Fuji or Gala Apples
Powdered Sugar garnish

Directions:
1. For each serving, heat 1/2 oz. of butter in an 8" non-stick, oven proof saute pan over medium heat.
2. Coat the pan well with melted butter.
3. Pour 6 oz. of the batter into the pan.
4. Place in a 375F convection oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until the pancake batter is puffed and lightly browned.
5. Slide the pancake from the saute pan onto a serving plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

overarching redness

Each watercolor... glows like the real thing. Apples with their smooth texture but irregular coloring come alive on the rough thick paper and the watery thin pigments.

There is a lesson here with a golden apple for a subject.
http://www.yongchen.com/lesson_1/index.html

I like Mr. Yong's quote "If your apple is has speckles, make little dots of brown where the speckles appear."

As with all who have mastered their craft, it sounds so simple.

Apple Chips

I was on a long drive down the canadian coast and there was nothing there but abandoned farms and equally abandoned gas stations. When I saw a rest stop that sold these, I kew it was the closet thing to real food I'd see for another day. They were stunningly good, and then almost dissapointly good for me. They are sweet, crunchy and do not persist in the mouth longer than you want. Instead they leap from crunchy to dissolving in seconds.

The Apple Dumpling Gang

Who was the Apple Dumbling Gang? Aside from the Disney flicks starring Don Knotts, they are also a band of thuggish Seattle Grandmothers that know their way around a kitchen, Washington's Own Apple Dumpling Gang

The Apple Dumpling Gang 1975
Three orphaned siblings are forced upon confirmed bachelor Donovan (Bixby) in a 19th century boom town of Quake City, CA. After an earthquake shakes the area, the children find a large gold nugget worth tens of thousands of dollars. But their newfound wealth is causing more problems than it's solving, so they agree to "give" the gold to two bumbling outlaws (Knotts & Conway). But they only way they can get the gold is to steal it from the bank vault where it's being held for safe keeping.

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again 1979
Amos and Theodore the two bumbling outlaw wannabees from The Apple Dumpling Gang are back. They are trying to make it on their own. When they arrive at the town they are going to, all sorts of things go awry. They accidentally subdue the town's legendary lawman, Wooly Bill Hitchcock thus enraging him into tracking them down. They also are accused of bank robbery. And they "enlist" in the army, and burn down the fort. Amid all this the army is beseiged by someone stealing their supplies.

http://www.appledumpling.com/about.shtml

Apple crates from paradise

Apple orchards are paradise. What else is there to say?

Crab Apples

defined not by taste, color, season or genetic marker a crab apple is any apple with a diameter of under 2 inches. It is one of the simplest segregations devised by man in pomology. No subjectivity, no feasance, no deliberation. It is sacrosanct in a universe of few such things.

http://www.dawesarb.org/pdf/collectionsgardens/best-crab-apples.pdf

Psychedelic Apple

Formed in London in 1968, Apple led by lead guitarist Rob Ingram and vocalist Denis Regan recorded only one album during their short tenure, but what an album it is. Repertoire Records has compiled all 12 tracks from the original lp along with both sides of the two singles the band released on Larry Page's Page One Records, a total of 16 tracks and 52 minutes playing time of pure, unadulterated classic British psychedelic rock. An apple tasted breifly...


Import reissue of the legendary psychedelic band's rare 1969 album includes the original sleeve & four bonus tracks, 'Let's Take A Trip Down The Rhine' (Single Mix), 'Buffalo Billycan' (Single Mix), 'Doctor Rock' (Single Mix) & 'The Otherside' (Single Mix). This is a lost treasure of psychedelia. Currently, the original vinyl is very, very rare and, of course, very expensive.
http://ourpsychblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/apple-apple-day-1969.html

An orchard is not a home

...but the mistake is easy to make.
A postard from NW Arkansas in a WWII babyboomers suburban housing project that certianly still exists today.

Antique Apple Postcards

Since the late 1800s, travelers to the Blue Ridge Mountains have been sending postcards of everything from gigantic apples to town squares. a number of exxagerating postaards here: http://www.cccrow.com/album/pc-exag.html
It's somewhat kitchy, somewhat hokey but an old image and an older joke. But this photographic legacy offers a unique view of western Virginia architecture, commerce, and scenic vistas. Two new exhibits at Ferrum College’s Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, the State Center for Blue Ridge Folklore, create a 50-year window into Virginia’s past with regional images featured in more than 1,000 vintage postcards.

Please pay them a visit. http://www.ferrum.edu/news/2003spring/postcard.htm

Virginia Apple schedule

You know where I'll be.


Tyro - Sept. 10-11 - Pick Your Own Apples at Silver Creek Orchards features red and golden delicious varieties. Half-bushel bags are provided.

Roseland - Sept. 17-18 - Pick Your Own Apples at Seaman's Orchard in beautiful Nelson County! Apple varieties include red, golden delicious, empire and jonagold. Half-bushel bags are provided!

Lovingston - Sept. 24-25, Oct. 15-16 - Apple Harvest & Apple Butter Festival at Drumheller's Orchard features a corn maze, hayrides to the orchard and a pumpkin patch! Other attractions include country crafts, entertainment, fresh cider, too!

Tyro - Oct. 1 & 15 - The Apple Butter Makin' Festival at Flippin-Seaman features a large selection of Virginia-grown apples along with a corn maze and other entertainment! Apple cider and butter can be purchased as well as pumpkins!

Tyro - Oct. 8-9 - Pick Your Own Rome & York Apples at Silver Creek Orchard. Half-bushel bags are provided. The orchard is completely accessible and well-maintained.

Syria - Oct. 8-9, 15-16 - Graves' Mountain Apple Harvest Festival offers free admission and parking, bluegrass music, cloggers, arts and crafts along with hayrides, horseback rides, pick-your-own apples and demos from yesteryear!

Sortenbeschreibung: Apfel

http://www.bafz.de/baz99_e/bazfrme.htm

You should know what apfel means...

This is a cross breed a mix of golden delicious and the remo.

Apples in Direct Mail advertising

The striking image of five unnaturally perfect Granny Smith apples is eye catching. BUt apples have nothing to do with postcards. Nothing at all. Here, the apple is used to manipulate you through the wholesome memories you've attached to them. Postcards of course have their own wonderful arcana in the american psyche. completely effective in reaching people if the message is compressed enough to reach their minds eye in the instant before it hits the circular file.

Here it works. I am still thinking about it hours after the mail arrives.

Mother Holle's Apples

...She went on a little farther, till she came to a free full of apples.'Shake me, shake me, I pray,' cried the tree; 'my apples, one and all,are ripe.' So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling downupon her like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not asingle apple left upon it. Then she carefully gathered the applestogether in a heap and walked on again.

Apples as the horn of plenty, a hallucinated otherworldly vision in this tale. Apple trees speak to me in the Fall the same way, ripe apples make me steer my car to the side of the road, to begin a little sampling. Note to other would-be trespassers.. most farmers own and can use rifles.

The next thing she came to was a little house, and there she saw anold woman looking out, with such large teeth, that she was terrified,and turned to run away. But the old woman called after her, 'What areyou afraid of, dear child? Stay with me; if you will do the work of myhouse properly for me, I will make you very happy. You must be verycareful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish youalways to shake it thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; thenthey say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am MotherHolle.' The old woman spoke so kindly, that the girl summoned upcourage and agreed to enter into her service.

eventually the girl turns greedy and the plenty be it gold or apple or whatnot, is denied to her.