Though somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, it's gray winter where I live. A good time to throw a log on the fire and curl up with, um, informative internet videos about apples. Really. I first stumbled onto one of these at Apples and Oranges , where Kevin Hauser, the blogger/nurseryman-in-chief, had made this video about bud grafting. The video is hosted at Kevin's YouTube channel with other apple videos. It's one of my favorites, making good use of the medium to show, in four action-packed minutes, how you make an apple tree by grafting budwood onto rootstock using nothing but a utility knife, a pair of clippers, and some tape. (Any tape, according to Kevin.) I didn't know how this worked. Do you? There's even theme music.