Apple Harvest!

I was so thankful to be pickin' apples. Pete was blessed by the cool crisp morning air and the gentle breeze that swept the mountainside. The first apples found were out of the kids' reach: So, we came up with an easy way to add at least 60 inches to their height. Carrying them on our shoulders brought them right to the tops! Our younger son said the shoulder-ride was his favorite part of pickin'.Aha! discovered low laying apples on this row of trees:and found itty bitty baby apples too! aren't these cute? My favorite was racing together down the aisles of trees! My next desire was a "posed" picture. Negative. Nope. So, we get what we get.Uncensored love.How God must love us! We are the apple of His eye. That phrase is used in the Bible to refer to God focusing His love, attention, and protection on those who follow Him. [fr. gospel.com]

Deuteronomy 32:10-11: In a desert land He found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; He guarded him as the apple of His eye, like an eagle that stirs up its nest an hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions.

The words love, attention, and protection stir up images of parents and children. Better yet, visions of our Abba Father and we, His adopted children.

Stopped off for some apple crumb pie on the way out.

And tradition has it that the kids get an old fashioned candy stick too!