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richared apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1932

richared apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1932

Nobody tells me how to punctuate except the @chicagomanual.bsky.social

𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is aimed at fostering collaborative research on apples across the historic Silk Road regions!
The website is currently under construction. If you are working on apples in the region & like to join the network, please email via website www.silk-road-apple-association.org

I have heard that 640 kb should be enough for anybody....

More apples please

Death hack.

As are many things. But I was using "Google" as shorthand for "Google Search."

That is how to do it.

I find most social media distasteful (viscerally as well as politically), but you can use it, if you like, to spread the word.

If you have a word, that is.

Hear him! and put your creative stuff on your on site outside of social media.

I think that social media today creates psychological OBSTACLES to starting your own thing, but the antidote is to do it, not winge about it.

And: have patience, and don't expect Google to do your outreach for you because they won't.

It's super easy to start something online. My fave quick-and-dirty website tool, for small community groups and campaigns, is Blogger (100% free, easy to use), but there are plenty others.

Neighborly apples I don't eat half of these apple varieites half as often as I should like, and I like less than half of them half as well as they deserve.

Palate cleanser, anyone?
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Scenes from an autumn A few visual takes on the best time of the year.

Just looking back (with a sigh) #apples

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Reminder: Our 8th Annual Wassail is Happening Next Saturday!

This family-friendly event offers the chance to learn traditional wassail songs and join in the festivities. Join us Saturday, 17th January.

🎟️: www.nightingalecider.com/pages/wassai...

🎥: BigPlus

A row of apples trees in the walled garden at National Trust Quarry Bank, January 2026.

A row of apples trees in the walled garden at National Trust Quarry Bank, January 2026, back-lit by the setting sun. To the left is a corner of a greenhouse and at the back-right is the corner of the gardener's cottage.

A row of apples trees in the walled garden at National Trust Quarry Bank, January 2026, back-lit by the setting sun. In the centre is a greenhouse with a dipping pond in front of it, and at the back-right is the corner of the vinery glasshouse range, and gardener's cottage.

A row of apples trees in the walled garden at National Trust Quarry Bank, January 2026, back-lit by the setting sun. In the background is a greenhouse.

A winter's afternoon in the linear orchard. Dormant apple trees back-lit by the setting sun.

Walled garden, National Trust Quarry Bank, 13/01/26

#apples #orchard #NTQBfruit 📷: DT

Blushing Granny The Granny Smith apple tastes different when allowed to ripen fully.

You think you know Granny?

Let me tell you about Granny.

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Might actually try printing this one.
Shot on my Fuji GFX 50SII with an old projection lens
#fujigfx

That does seem to be the price of fame! So congratulations, I guess.

Happy new year to you, Nina! And the one board/ e-board crew

Hey, maybe you should have a blog too! Happy new year.

My new years post, which will not make sense to everyone, is that it is better to be on social media with a blog than without.

Blog space is a place for me to stand outside the algos and vicissitudes of corporate social.

Sure bsky is pretty chill and I love you all but this place isn't mine.

The ferry from Lynn is super fun boat ride (and cheap!).

There is Northern Strand trail, of course, and it fills a real gap, but I found it kind of a dull ride.

This year I found new ways (new to me) to use the T. North Shore towns like Nahant and Ipswich are only about 40 miles from my house, from which there are many options. Ride as many miles as I like.

Return by rail or by ferry from Lynn; then Community Path > Minuteman > home.

Fir trees decked with apples.

There is a long tradition of using apples as Xmas decorations stemming from medieval Paradise Plays where they symbolised the forbidden fruit Paradise trees often fir morphed Xmas trees in UK when Prince Albert introduced German Christmas traditions. The apples morphed into Christmas decorations.

I hope you don;t feel this is nit picking. Maybe it will give people another reason to read your blog post! Which they should. 3/3

Chapman was all about pippins, not cultivars. He grew from seed and never grafted.

This was actually a big deal, a class distinction, in the young US when Chapman was on the frontier. Cultivars were elitist; pippins were for farmhouse cider.

This figured in the presidential election of 1840. 2/3

You don't allow comments on your blog, so: interesting posts, but I take issue with the Johnny Appleseed comparison.

I do see how the idea of a lone pomophile eccentrically spreading apples applies, but (1/3)

Have had

Tru dat

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