Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Orchard solace

Apples hanging from trees in an orchard in the fall

Mourning the death of a friend, and of a business into which they had put heart and soul, Katie Mather and her husband Tom left their shuttered bar and came south, to Kent, in the fall, to pick apples.

 ❝  Now I am standing among rows of Jonagold apples listening to the rumble of an old tractor in a nearby field.... Tom is sitting in a fold-up camping chair making some brews on a camping stove outside.... The sun shines.

Friday, March 8, 2024

A Reflection

Title page of a book with a very long title that begins "A View of the Culivation of Fruit Trees"

on the Indisputable Fact
that some Old Pomological Works Have

Absurdly Long Titles

as if the Author Were Not Content to Let the Work Speak for Itself, but Were in Stead Compelled to Described the Nature and Contents of the Treatise in Great Detail

and if the Reader Thinks this Title is one of Those, then

FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS


Title page of a book with a very long title that begins "A View of the Culivation of Fruit Trees"