The golden apples of the sun

[asakiyume]

I've probably used that exact subject line before. Every year around now I go to get some Baldwin apples from Cold Spring Orchard, because they are The Best for pies, and every year, I also pick up some Roxbury Russets (America's oldest apple type) and some beautiful, and delicious, Golden Russets.

This year, probably because of the drought, they are very tiny. Little baby apples--you could eat one in three bites. But as beautiful as ever.

You might mistake them for ripening tomatoes, by their color, or maybe wild persimmons, but no: they are apples.



Next to a mini pumpkin gourd and next to a Baldwin apple, for color and size comparison:

Comments

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Wow those are small

[sovay]

Current Music:Jonathan Byrd: Golden Glow of Autumn

That's perfect.

I love that you can buy Roxbury and Golden Russets. The little ones are beautiful.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Tiny and pretty! I noticed the same thing, when I went to pick apples earlier this month. A lot of the apples were tiny but very cute and sweet.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are small!

We don't have those types of apples out here. Are they sweet? Tart? In between?

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Those apples look tasty.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Yum!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm pie . . . with ice cream!

[ericmarin.livejournal.com]

Those golden russets are perfect for when you just want a few bites of apple and nibbling at a regular-sized apple would be a waste.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

The Golden Apple is my working title for the MG fantasy I'm going to try to knock out this NaNo. :D

I really love apples and cooking sundry things with them; alas, Egypt is not a big apple producing country. Soon, though, soon...

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

They look like apples to me, but then, I'm a Kenting and an apple is never just an apple! :o)

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

This all sounds lovely. The tiny apples are adorable.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

A tiny, crisp apple that can be eaten in three bites would be perfect. Of course, a large crisp apple that needs many bites is also good! :)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite bits of historical trivia: Johnny Appleseed wasn't wandering around the Eastern seaboard planting apple trees for the sake of the fruit, but for the cider. Most of the varieties he planted were tart and high in tannins, the sort that make complex cider flavors. Alas, a number of them have been lost over the years thanks to Prohibition and the decreasing popularity of hard cider in the intervening century...I read an article about one of the folks whose life's work is finding old apple trees with lost cultivars and nursing the seedlings for replanting. Fascinating stuff.

[danceswithwaves.livejournal.com]

There's this book that I read a long while ago but think about periodically. I wish I remembered the title. It's about golden apples and mountain folk and valley folk, and there's a competitive race to get to the golden apples, and everyone when they reach a certain age has to run the race. And only the worthy reach them or something. It was a good book and I think you'd like it, but I wish I remembered the title.

Anyway, lovely apples.