Adam's Apples

This wrinkled, rubbery apple tastes better than anything in supermarkets this month.  ¶  Click to view up close and personal.  ¶  The texture is not bad either.

(Photo: Some of the apple trees at Hutchins Farm earlier this week in Concord, Massachusetts. ) Neither blooms nor frost: these whitened trees are glazed with a spray of kaolin clay , an organic treatment that discourages pests from eating trees and crops.

(Photo: The apple trees are looking for love at Hutchins Farm yesterday in Concord, Massachusetts. )  So far, so good.

Hopeful spring is early days, with months of risk and peril before the harvest.  ¶  Some of these won't make it.  ¶  But it's May, so let's enjoy the beauties of spring and the promises for the fall.