Apple Days

Sunday October 3rd.  I have a mild apple obsession.  That is not to say that I endlessly eat apples, rather than I find them to be interesting.  Most of this stemmed from reading Michael Pollan's book, The Botany of Desire.  The most intriguing thing to me about apples are the seeds.  Each apple has five seeds.  Each seed contains the genetic information for a completely different apple species, thus, specific apple species cannot be grown from seed.  They have to be grafted.

Today Beth and I went to Julian to the Apple Festival.  After walking around town and buying pie we decided to walk to the festival, but, due to no fault of our own, we walked the wrong way for a while.  This made us hungry.  Luckily Beth packed us a lunch which was especially good because we had $11 between the two of us.  Instead of actually going into the festival we wandered around the winery.

I stole apples.  Beth stole apples.  Apples were stolen.  All of these apples were just falling on the ground.  The trees were by the side of the road.  The apples were hanging from the branches.  Really, we rescued these apples from a certain fate of rotting on the ground.  We could have easily gone into the nearby orchard and paid $10 to pick a bag of apples, but why when there were free apples across the street.  

There weren't only apples, there were also pears.  

Before heading home, we went to a favorite childhood place of mine, Frosty Burger.  I don't remember ever having food from here, but I love their soft serve.  It isn't anything special, but it's good.  I wasn't having two cones to myself, I was holding Beth's in this photo.  I believe that she might be writing about her first Frosty Burger experience so be sure to check out her blog, The Delighted Bite.