Apple of My Eye

I have always wanted to go apple picking but for some reason or another I never did. Maybe because the orchards are an hour and a half away or maybe because we do not eat a lot of apples. Last weekend when I was in Massachusetts, my daughter-in-law baked an apple crisp from fresh picked apples. Every fall they pick apples and bake pies and crisps. I was determined to go to an orchard at least once in my life. I hate to use the phrase " bucket lis"t because it is so played out so I will use the phrase, "bushel list". My family always had the mindset that if you want apples you go to the store and get them. It only took 30 years to convince them that there is a big difference between apple buying and apple picking. We drove to the orchard, ran through the rows of assorted trees and took pictures to chronicle the event. We had  a "peck of fun".  This week we will bake pies and crisps and literally enjoy the fruits of our labor.