It’s apple season here in New Hampshire, and since Mr. C can eat two or three apples a day we always make a few trips to area orchards every Fall.
Here are a couple of very old apple trees, they might be some of the oldest at the farm.
There’s always a lot of apples that drop to the ground before they can be picked.
The farm’s chickens like to look for the worms in the fallen apples, or maybe they’re just eating the apples and not the bugs.
These were just out of reach! I tried holding C up for him to grab them, but he’s getting a little too big for that now. I could only hold him up for a few seconds before I had to give up.
Recently, a local radio show interviewed a botanist who specializes in trees. The station asked listeners to post photos of their favorite tree to the station’s website. I meant to send in a photo of the tree below, but didn’t get to it in time. It’s a huge old Maple in the apple orchard nearby. In a week or so the leaves on this tree will turn bright golden yellow and red before falling. The drought we’ve been having will most likely mean that this year the colors won’t be as dramatic. I’ll have to find a photo from a previous year and post it.
Apples and Mums at the farm stand.
The pumpkin patch.
The farm cat. The farmer tells me he’s a very good mouser.
Some of the apples we picked. I think we have thirty or so apples, enough to last C a week or so!
Mr. C's Dad 
The chickens gotta eat. I love fall here in New England. Nice photos.
Thanks, Fall is the best for photos!
A beautiful fall post, Peter! These apples look sooo good! Mr.C is a big boy now. 🙂
Hope to see photos of gold leave later.
I think I have a lot of photos of that tree, though the good Fall ones are at least two years old. I should try to find one. I should also have said where the orchard is – it’s in Hollis near the Massachusetts border.
Thank you, Peter.
I planted several apples trees when I got to my current house, but several years on they are nothing like as productive as the ones you have in your photos.
Do you know what type the ones in the bottom photo are? They look lovely.
There are two varieties there – honeycrisp and blushing golden. The honeycrisp are the larger ones, they’re very dense, crisp, and sweet. The blushing golden are smaller and a bit more tart. I read a memoir by an orchard keeper recently and learned that apples are a lot more work than I thought, some trees don’t produce for long too.
Thanks. I don’t recall seeing those varieties in the UK.
We’re lucky we are at least going to have an apple harvest since there were no peaches and it has been such a dry year.
We went to another orchard recently, one in Northern New Hampshire, they had an awful year, they’re already pretty much done for the season.
These autumn hues are ravishing. Stunning captures!
Thanks vey much, I should post some others, before it gets to be Winter here!