Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Apples in Advertising

Apples are utterly ubiquitous, like baseball, eagles, dollars, American flags and the color red.Secular art makes it a symbol of love, and sexuality.  I'm not making that up.  that's why Venus poses with one so often.  But American advertising uses it to project the opposite: chaste wholesomeness. It's inexplicable. t4he earliest use of the phrase "wholesome as apple pie" that I can easily find only dates to 1961, in the book "Lord Love A Duck" by Al Hine.

Sunday, September 05, 2010

North Star Orchard



Always worth visiting a new orchard or their stand, today was the North Star Orchard.  Summer Blaze, Premeir, and Honey Crisp were all on the counter today. Summer Blaze I am assuming is just "Blaze" a Jonathon cross with the Grimes Golden. It matures in early August. Their own site refers to it as the (Dayton) in parentheses which is news to me as that is a known and complicated hybrid. See here. The Premiere  I'd never seen before.