More apples!

Wild flowers along the roadside...on the way to get apples.

I decided since my apple butter turned out so good from the apples that we picked last week, we would go and see if we could pick some more at the produce stand where we " pick on the halves". Well, it wasn't a good year for apples for them because of all the heat we have had. So there were none for us to pick. We did get to buy a 1/2 gal of ice cream milk that everyone seems to be using for their homemade ice cream. It's neat...it has all the milks and creams in it, that you need for your recipe. Since there were no apples, we thought we would check the other orchard a mile or so down the road, before heading home. We were lucky...they had beautiful apples. We bought a 1/2 bushel and an apple corer. ...that works "wonderful"!

For the past two days, I've been making " apple butter, Aunt Eunice's apple sauce, apple jelly, and an apple pie....(being frozen in the freezer for later) Fall up here is fun...even though it still feels like summer. Soon, it will cool down and the hummingbirds will leave for the winter and we will have beautiful colored leaves to paint the countryside. .....and we will be eating my " apple efforts" all winter long.