The first blossoms appear on the apple trees in our orchard in March . . .


    


And soon blossoms are everywhere . . .

    


Soon it will be time to pick the first apples, as Larry surveys the orchard and Sophie, our farm dog, goes in search of more wonderful aromas . . .

    


All of this started quite small  . . .


This is one of our first seedlings, a Myers Limbertwig, circa 1990


But they grew quickly, as these photos of Jim and Nancy taken later that year show . . .

                       


Soon, we had a full orchard . . .                                                                       Which has continued to grow . . .

         Jim's Apples, 500 trees on hillside


Now we are able to ship our apples . . .                                                                            And still press enough for cider for ourselves . . .

                             

Below are pictures of some of our apples at different stages of development in recent years . . .

Gala     Rome, with a blush, late fall       Empire, Fall       fallawater, late fall applebutter       Lory Red, fall       Mutsu - Fall        Myers Royal Limbertwig      
        Gala                       Rome                       Empire                    Fallawater                 Lory Red                     Mutsu                    Myers Royal
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Limbertwig

Winesap           York, or Johnson Fine Winter            Striped Rambo, midseason            Wolf River, midseason            Paula Red, summer apple           Freedom midseason,pies
      Winesap                       York                                Rambo                             Wolf River                              Paula Red                    Freedom