Adam's Apples

What early apples do you like? I've collected 15 interesting early-summer apples on this (clickable) board: Follow Adam's Apples's board Apples of July and August on Pinterest.

Clarkdale Farm is in the pipeline's path. A proposed pipeline to bring natural gas from Pennsylvania to eastern Massachusetts would cut through a 100-year-old orchard in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The controversial plan would bring gas extracted by hydraulic fracturing , or fracking, from Pennsylvania and possibly New York, to feed the region's growing appetite for natural gas. Critics say the multi-billion-dollar pipeline project, to be paid for by electric rates, is much bigger than needed .

Red Vista Bella and green Lodi from yesterday's market. The first local apples of the harvest are cause for celebration.

The idea when I started this blog 6 years ago today was to blog about apples "to use the web to view the world."  Since then I've learned a lot about apples but also about blogging, technology, still photography, and writing for the web. These "but also" things have always been very much a part of the project for me, though I've never made much ado about that side of things on this blog.

The bough bows low earlier today at Nagog Hill Farm in Littleton, Massachusetts.

Sometime in the next few weeks, a local grower will harvest the first apples of the season before they are ripe and bring them to farmers market. These apples will be spongy and piney and sour. Because I have the self control of small kid in a big candy store, I will buy some anyway. I can't not.

I ate 169 apples in the first half of 2014, according to the daily record that I began on New Years Day. From my daily log of apple consumption. Hover over pie slices for details. There were 29 varieties in that time, if you count "unknown" as only 1.