First and foremost, I'd like to apologise for being so absent. Basically I've had troubles with my old laptop, which I use each morning to check my email & catch up on blogs, then to make matters worse, Google updated something or other and more troubles have ensued with all our devices. What with Covid lockdowns going on for so long, nothing much has been happening here and although we still have some tough restrictions, things have eased for now. Weather has been horrendous and we have the fire lit today and it's supposed to be nearly summer and everywhere seems waterlogged with so much rain lately. It's not too windy, though it is predicted over the weekend and the cleanup from the last two big storms is still underway, so we'll keep our fingers crossed that it stays away. I suppose from all the above, you may realise, that I've been a bit down of late, but I'll try and ease myself back into blogging slowly, catch up on a bit of blog reading, use my camera more and just generally try and relax a little. Here we go for this week's word......................
APPLE.
We live in an area with many different farms, including apple orchards and although I had high hopes of getting out this week to take some better photos, this will have to do. Most of the orchards are covered in hail netting.
Let's see what I had fun finding and photographing today. It is all plain nonsense really............😊
My favourite Apple & Ginger juice along with 2 lovely timber turned apples that I was gifted with many moons ago. The fabric shows lovely green cooking apples.
My glass apple bowls which I used on regular basis for stewed apple or apple snow while the kids were growing up at home and the apple sauce dish which still gets used occasionally if we have roast pork or maybe grilled pork chops. Above them is a page in a cookbook showing some apple recipes on my book stand.
A quilt of my own design using apple fabric. Taking good photos today has been hard due to the inclement weather.
And lastly, my old business card showing apples beside my business name, when I was quilting for others a few years back. Of course, most will recognise the name as my blog title too.
I did a little looking back in old photo albums for a couple of photos from years gone by, but alas mustn't have taken as many snaps when our children were small, but from 1980 to 1986 we lived in a small town called Batlow which had a plethora of orchards and a cannery which canned vegetables and fruit and made the best sparkling apple juice. We also spent many years living in Tasmania, which is known as the Apple Isle, and again as a full time working Mum, time was short for much photography. Oh well, that will have to be my lot for this week. I'll look forward to seeing what everyone else has come up with.
Take care all and hugs from down under.