Adam's Apples

You know Honeycrisp (right?) even if you don't follow this blog. If you read my regular reports, perhaps you recall last fall's Evercrisp . As its name suggests, Evercrisp, at right, takes aim at Honeycrisp and seeks to fill its shoes. Not by being boldly different, but by being the same only better. So, this is personal. Let's see how things shake down.

A small part of the orchard last Saturday at Clarkdale Fruit Farms . 

47 degrees (Fahrenheit) tomorrow. 63 on Tuesday; 69 on Wednesday, and 44 on Thursday. Photo: MChance666 ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ), via Wikimedia Commons That's the current extended forecast for apple country in Massachusetts from the National Weather Service . After tonight, there are no evening lows in the forecast below 40° F.

Imbolc, that old holiday when winter secretly pivots towards the spring, is the time I revisit those apples that I have tasted in the previous year and rate them according to my star system .