Mom and Don's Anniversary Apples

My mom and Don celebrated their anniversary over the weekend with a trip to the Smokey Mountains. On the way home, they stopped at Sky Top Orchard in North Carolina to pick apples. It's a family tradition.

In decades past, my mom took me, and then in due course it was my neice Savannah toddling through the orchard. I didn't realize just how long-established this annual apple-picking ritual was until my mom recently sent me an old black-and-white photo of her as a girl, staring in amazement as a lithe, young Aunt LaVerne clambered up into the fruit-laden branches of an apple tree in my great-grandmother's yard.

Happy Annivesary to Mom and Don!

Comments

[Mom]

Thank you for honoring us with a mention of our anniversary trip to visit Sky Top Apples. For anyone who is close enough to drive there, it is truly a lovely Autumn experience. I'm glad you put a link to Sky Top so people can see how beautiful it is. The famous Pink Lady apples will be available on October 15 so we will make a return visit then! We have a late crop of figs we just picked tonight and will be making fig preserves tomorrow, and maybe some apple butter as well. I'll let you know how it works out. I am learning how to improve my own techniques from your blog every day!