green blaze

My allotment had many surprises for me today.  I came across another when I was noticing how almost the entire crop of apples on three of my apple trees was on the ground.  They had all ripened themselves off the branch while I was away.  I was focussing on the quantity of apples, when suddenly I realised the colours of the apples were being set off by the bright emerald background created by the fine and juicy new grass underneath the trees.  I had sown grass there just before leaving, and now it was a brand new lawn.  It needed little lambs to gamble on it.  However, it just had rotting apples.  Ah well, they'll make good cider. 

Another surprise was my encounter with what must be the hugest apple in all the world.  My friend Pete showed me a very fine cooking apple tree in the communal orchard.  The apples on it were a goodly size, and so I collected some at my Dad's request.  He does love a nice apple, and baked apples with raisins and maple syrup in particular.  I needed three, and was searching for the biggest, when I met with an apple so big I thought there must be something wrong with it.  It fell easily into my hands, and then I could see it was a perfect apple, only with giantism.  Of course this could only be meant for my Dad, so he will have a hearty pudding tonight.