A year ago, my granddaughter and I went to Flower World, a wonderful multi-acre nursery close to home in Maltby. We were shopping for an apple tree. The selection was amazing, and we spent quite a bit of time looking at the trees and the pictures attached to the trees, showing us what the apples would look like.
The Gravenstein apple has some red blush and stripes over yellow flesh, and this new tree has produced only one apple this season. It is perfect in every way. I'm looking forward to future years when the tree gets larger and the crop gets more abundant.
This summer, I found a great old sign at an antique store that says 'Apple Orchard'. I hung it on the fence by my new tree, and it points to the other apple trees in our burgeoning orchard.
I can already smell the apple pies and applesauce and apple crisp of future years, all to be made possible by this one new tree. A tree is certainly an investment in one's future.
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