Adam's Apples

In spring and summer this seasonal blog slows down. I think of apples often, but not all thoughts are worth sharing.  ¶  You might nonetheless enjoy one or all of these three summer reflections while you wait on the harvest.

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.

(Image: Mary Daisy Arnold/USDA )  A vendor at Lexington's farmers market sold me a "Coville" apple back in 2009.  ¶  Now I think the grower got the name wrong.

(Photo: Buds are swelling on the apple trees at Hutchins Farms in Concord, Massachusetts, earlier today. ) It's still early days, but promising signs are right up there.