Apple Eater

Posted on August 26th, 2011 by Tonia No Comments

Our trees are loaded down with crispy, juicy apples. They’re not all the way ripe, but they’re far enough along to start eating for anyone who doesn’t mind a little tartness.

We bought an apple press with our neighbors and the four of us have big cider-making aspirations for the month of October. These are the things that make the end of summer a little less bitter, a little sweeter.

Something inspires the only cow of late

To make no more of a wall than an open gate,

And think no more of wall-builders than fools.

Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools

A cider syrup. Having tasted fruit,

She scorns a pasture withering to the root.

She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten.

The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten.

She leaves them bitten when she has to fly.

She bellows on a knoll against the sky.

Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry.

-The Cow in Apple Time by Robert Frost

The Official Taste-Tester has been hard at work. He calls it quality control.

Some of them are red, some yellow, some green, and some a mottled mixture of all three.

Some of them are a wild variety, and some of them were planted a long time ago by the other people who lived and loved this place. Thanks, other people.

Have a great weekend!

P.S. I am running off to a friend’s wedding in Minnesota today, so perhaps you will forgive me for not posting the Dear T&M as promised {nor posting the cabin photos…..aakk! My excuse there is that my mother hasn’t sent them to me yet. I used her camera the whole time we were there because Mike needed ours left set up at home for a photo shoot we were in the middle of for a client.} Next week!!

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