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I’m playing around in the garden with the constantly rewarding 105mm lens, and here’s the very top of our Diascia ‘apple blossom’, a patio plant which produces an absolute riot of tiny flowers throughout the summer.

I am realizing how difficult photography actually is. I had this idea in my head, but making it come out as an artistic photo is a whole different thing. I took about a million pictures, and only a few made the cut, even though I am still not completely happy with them. I guess I will have to continue to practice!!

Spring at last and my apple tree is as full of blossoms as I have ever seen it. Last year I only got 18 apples, so this year should be much better.

Just walking around our yard and these apple blossoms catch my eye.

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Coming soon to an apple tree near you

Macro Mondays candidate - It's A-Peeling to me

I went with plain old apple peel in the end

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exploring an apple

Apple blossom, shot during a lull in the rain and very strong winds we are having right now.

Apple Fall Store Sim.

Taken at Apple Fall, Sunset (103, 124, 23)

The deep pink blossom is an unusual type of apple that has pink flesh. I've forgotten its name.

As seen at the All About Apple Museum.

Texture by Kerstin Frank. Thank You.

Thank you everyone for your visits, faves, and kind comments.

I planned to shoot this apple still series for months. This was taken outside a park, but the park is closed for car entrance. I have to put the apple on top of my car and shoot it. The back ground is a bit messy, so I have to blur it in the PS.

Date: 2008.01.31

Copyright 2005-2009 AlexEdg AllEdges (www.alledges.com).

The past week I have been peeling, chopping, freezing, making apple butter (in which there is no butter), making apple tarts, apple sauce...etc......

I was given a very large bag of apples from a neighbour's tree...and, I'm not wasting any of them!!

Turns out I think they are Macintosh...which is my fave. I couldn't figure it out at first...they were all green and fairly firm...but, as they sat ..some turned pinkish here and there. The flesh seems to have softened a bit... they are Macs.... and, very tasty. The first ones I peeled were a bit less sweet, but still very edible.

Still have a smallish bagful left to deal with today...and, they are the smallest of the lot. My husband joked about it being akin to peeling grapes.... but it isn't quite that bad.

I've made apple tarts in the past and sent you to this site for the lovely olive oil pastry.... I'll post the link again because if you haven't tried it...you should.

"Ricette Fatte in Casa"

The recipe is for Orange Tarts...but, the pastry is the same for any tart you wish to make. Just figure out a filling...

All in an attempt to help the war effort. A quart basket of apples supplies the soldier in the field with three (4) bullets. So, c'mon folks, do your part and buy some delicious fruit and make the statement that you are united in the fight! You will not stand for this aggression! Long live freedom! Long live democracy! I am... (insert nationality here, i.e., Norwegian, or Somalian, etc.)

Today was 'apple day' for me. I helped my mother pick apples in her garden. The weather was perfect here for it. It is my absolute favourite time of year now.

Expect to see a few more apple photos from this shoot soon. I'm also going to get my blog active again and upload outtakes there regularly. I'll post the link when it's up and running.

This is for my dear friends Amy and Monica ♥ because they're the sweetest girls you'll ever meet and they support me whatever I do.

Scavenge Challenge - fruit and veg

Found this apple sitting on this cement ledge...so I took a photo of it.

Downtown Grand Rapids in the late evening.

Thanks for views, comments and favs :)

# yo me quedo en casa

# I stay at home

Saludos

Covet not thy neighbour's apples. Buy him a beer and he'll give you a basket of them.

(In fact, these are my neighbour's apples, and yes I regularly buy him a beer and yes we still have some sliced apple in the freezer from last year!)

The apple tree was perhaps the earliest tree to be cultivated and its fruits have been improved through selection over thousands of years. Alexander the Great is credited with finding dwarfed apples in Kazakhstan in 328 BC. Those he brought back to Macedonia might have been the progenitors of dwarfing root stocks. Winter apples, picked in late autumn and stored just above freezing, have been an important food in Asia and Europe for millennia.

I'll be making the charoset for my family's Passover Seder tonight. It is a mix of apples, wine, honey, walnuts, and cinnamon.

Movement at the Apple Store in Munich.

The Crazy Tuesday theme is Stacked.

I call this a miracle shot. These items stayed stacked just barely long enough for me to crank off a quick shot and then collapsed, and they refused my efforts to re-stack them so I could try different angles and lighting. Fortunately, I'm happy with this one.

Apple - copyright Inamourada Flux © 2006

Every year I take a photo in the spring of snow on a flower or blossom. I was starting to think this would be the year it didn't happen, but last night we had about two inches of snow. My apple tree has lots of buds and I found a few open blossoms for photos.

An apple tree heavy with blossom

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Getting ready to make apple strudel :)

I would like to tell everyone who commented, invited, faved or took a look at my creations (paintings), that I am thankful and apreciated.

Apples

Apples and conkers which we brought home on Sunday from our Tintern trip.

Windfall apples and conkers which had fallen from the tree which my nephews planted when they were little.