30 Days of Apple Goodness

Though Starbucks has already released its pumpkin spice latte, there are some who would claim it’s too early.

Sure: it’s not officially fall. Sure: pumpkins aren’t quite in season. Sure: we shouldn’t let a corporation’s calendar dictate our lives.

But you know what it isn’t too early for? Apples.

Apples, apples, apples.

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Ten Apple-licious Things

I told you brooches were coming back.

THE apple pie. (It takes some confidence to give your recipe a name like that.)

Who says you can’t play with your food?

This apple-glazed pheasant looks AMAZING.

An apple for the teacher.

Beware! Some apples are poison. (Well, some poisonous things are called apples, even if they aren’t apples really, and some things used to be called apples and aren’t really poisonous at all.)

Any bookworm would love to burrow into this apple.

What exactly is the apple of your eye?

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The Season of Thanksgiving Day Two: I’m Thankful for Apple Days

Back in September, our family had one of those golden days. We took a long car ride, the baby napping while the boy happily watched cars and trucks go by, and ended up at an apple orchard, where we picked our weight in apples. It was a cute little farm, nothing too touristy, with good variety and neatly numbered rows. My husband played with the kids while I did the bulk of the picking, and then we wandered the rows, the boy ducking back and forth under the dividers and the girl riding on Daddy’s shoulders.