When life gives you lemons.....er, apples

About 10 years ago, my MIL gave me a miniature (dwarf) apple tree for my birthday. It was just a little starting that she ordered from a catalogue, but she thought it would be fun. It grew and grew - it's about 5 feet tall - but only managed to put out 5 apples during year 3. We thought it was defective! The next year there were about 15. But it gets better and better every year.

We don't feed it, spray it, dust it....just let her grow naturally, and this year there were 35 apples!



Hubby filled a crate (GW $2 wine crate) with 'em! They have some spots, but that doesn't affect anything.

I have a couple of big bowls of them, so...........

I thought this would be a good excuse to make an apple crisp. Oops, I thought of it after we had served up our dishes!

I was thinking about how good fruit takes time, and how often God refers to good branches bearing fruit, and how He makes all thing beautiful in His time, and how prayer takes time, and answers take time. I guess an apple tree is for more than apples......it's for lessons, too. Blessings, Linda

p.s. Evidently Manuela at The Pleasures of Homemaking has a great apple tree, too!

And if you haven't seen the apple harvest that Cindy at Applestone Cottage brings in, then you haven't seen anything!