Ready for the Picking
Ready for the Picking

Ready for the Picking

Ripe Apple - Harvest Ready in the Yakima Valley

Harvest time in the fall is always full of activity and views to whet the appetite.

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To me,

there is almost nothing as delicious looking as a ripe apple

hanging on the tree.

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When I was a kid in the 1950s/60s,

my family made an annual trip in the fall to the tiny eastern Washington town of Naches.

A farmer from Sweden had an orchard there

that we visited each year where my dad picked bushels of apples.

He told my sister Patti and I

that would could take as many apples from the ground as we pleased.

We did.

Then we ate them all the way home,

until we were almost sick to

our stomachs.

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I still love apples,

they are my favorite fruit.

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There are orchards all over in the Cascade foothills

of eastern Washington.

Of the six states that produce the most apples in the U.S.,

Washington produces 57% of the annual national harvest,

five times more than NY, the next highest producer.

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In the area between Naches

and just east of the town of Yakima are places with interesting names

such as Cowiche, Tieton, and Ahtanum.

Here in the Yakima Canyon,

a delicious looking apple is ready to harvest and eat.

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Today,

is ‘Tuesday Muse,’ over at my friend Nancy’s place (A Rural Journal).

See you tomorrow for ‘Rurality Blog Hop #37.’

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19 Comments

  1. When I go to my attic I’m going to have to check for sure I think some of my old teenage keepsakes are packed in a Washington apple cardboard box. :) My Dad loved apples and we always had some. My daughter still remembers her Pappy peeling one all the way around resulting in one long apple peel
    A lovely shot! The apple itself looks like a healthy specimen.

  2. Such a simple, clean, beautiful photo! I love apples too, and am so thankful for our little McIntosh tree.
    Thanks for stopping in at Cranberry Morning. Sorry I’m not able to respond more personally to your comments via email, but when I try, I get ‘no reply blogger.’ Hope you have a wonderful fall day!

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