Sunday, May 28, 2006

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.

Friday, May 26, 2006

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

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

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!

Monday, May 15, 2006

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.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

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.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

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.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Oh, Apple of Discordia

The Sacred Chao (below) is a symbol used by Discordians to illustrate the relationship between of order and disorder. According to Principia Discordia the Sacred Chao is not the Yin-Yang of the Taoists. It is the HODGE-PODGE of the Erisians. And, instead of a Podge spot on the Hodge side, it has a PENTAGON which symbolizes the ANERISTIC PRINCIPLE, and instead of a Hodge spot on the Podge side, it depicts the GOLDEN APPLE OF DISCORDIA to symbolize the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.

The Sacred Chao symbolizes absolutely everything anyone need ever know about absolutely anything, and more! It even symbolizes everything not worth knowing, depicted by the empty space surrounding the Hodge-Podge.

Although most religions revere the principles of harmony and order; or at least purport to... Discordianism interprets disharmony and even chos as equally valid aspects of reality. The Principia Discordia subtly suggests that Discordianism was founded as the antithesis the sense of order on other religions. Balance is a theme throughout Christianity, judaism Islam and even pegan religions such as wikka and druidism. [only scientology suggests that cash is the balance for all things] Essentially they are founded in the idea that chaos is the underlying impulse of the universe. Mathmatically speaking, they have a point.

Like everything else, it is immortalised in song:

Let us sing to old Discordia
Cause it's sure she's never bored ya
And if she's good enough for ya
Then she's good enough for me!

If your rising sign is Aries
You'll be taken by the Fairies
Meet the Buddah in Benares
where he'll hit you with a pie!

We will sing a verse for Eris
(Golden apples for the fairest!)
Though she sometimes likes to scare us
But she's good enough for me!

http://www.iit.edu/~phillips/personal/song/old_disc.html

Monday, May 01, 2006

Juice Beauty Green Apple Peel

They smear apple paste all over their bodies like narcissists trying to turn back the inevitable burdens of time. Inevitability is the most powerful magic... after delusion of course .

It does smell nice however.