We have two apple trees in the garden – I thoroughly recommend having fruit trees if you have the time and the space (you don’t need much space). For minimal effort you get a lot of bountiful harvest!

Whenever I have an itchy shutter finger and have to take a photo, more often than not it’s the apple trees that get snapped. I realised today I have Polaroids of them through all the seasons.

Bleak mid-winter but there’s beauty to be found in the chaotic pattern of the branches, and that one single leaf, holding on…

Springtime and the blossom brightens the world. I adore blossom – it’s like when the Wizard of Oz changes from black and white to full Technicolor; suburbia becomes a fairytale-land…

Summer’s here; this is what we’ve been waiting for – each one of those pretty blossoms is now a gorgeous-tasting rosy apple…

Autumn – a last hoorah of colour and golden hues before the inevitability of winter…

And so it goes on. As it has done and always will. Even if there’s no one about with an old 60′s camera and super-precious instant film to photograph it.

August break XI

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There’s a little corner of my garden where the sun always shines…

Polaroid SX-70 + 600 film + ND filter on film pack

August break IX

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I was literally enjoying the fruits of my labours yesterday – in that I was picking and eating a lot of apples from the garden. Believe it or not this is the after picture, plus there’s another tree! Looking forward to trying this with them.

When I say “I” picked them, I mean I supervised and took charge of quality control (still have a bit of tummy ache).

They
are Discovery apples which are one of the earliest varieties to ripen.
They don’t store well so you won’t normally find for sale in
the supermarket.

They taste a-may-zing (zing being the key word here). I love the way the red of the skin bleeds into the white flesh.

There were a lot of sub-standard fallers and we all know there’s only one way to deal with those bad boys!


Harvest

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Dust off your cameras

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The ever inspiring (and lovely) Susannah has had a super brainwave and I think we should all join in.

Intriged? It’s ‘The August Break 2010′. This doesn’t mean there won’t be anything to see here, in fact there will be lots – a photo every day (hopefully)!

The idea is that we all deserve a break from thinking of words to write over the summer, just add a photo as often as you like through the month and we’ll see how all our Augusts look. No rules, none at all, so any sort of camera (I have a cool new camera app on my phone to try out), words or no words, 5 times a day or just once a fortnight – you’re the boss!

Read all about it and add yourself to the blogroll over on Susannah’s blog.

There’s also a flickr group.

Canon 5D MKII + 85mm f/1.8 lens

I know it’s not August yet but here’s my photo for today. No words. (Apart from these ones). Are you going to play along too?

Grow

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July is such a wonderful month in the garden – a time to sit back at watch it all flourish – except you don’t get much of a chance because it all needs picking and eating (or plonking into jars).

I’m having a hard job keeping up with the sweet peas, this is about my tenth pickle-jar packed full of highly scented blooms and there’s no sign of this single, little, magical wigwam stopping production any time soon!

The tomatoes are preparing to go equally crazy – and I can’t wait! We’ve got all manner of varieties to chomp on any day now. Waiting. Waiting…

 

As well as the aubergines, courgettes, peppers, chillies, blueberries, rhubarb and broccoli there are the two ancient apple trees to look forward to – one of which is getting impatient and plopping little reminders inches from my head whenever I walk underneath it, just to keep me on my toes.

Photos taken with Canon 5D MKII and 85mm f/1.8 lens

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