tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252122811035264254.post3487694572865997002..comments2023-10-02T14:13:59.803+01:00Comments on The day to day life and thoughts of an artist,thinker and barstool philosopher: The Motorway Apple TreeRalphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02099161160886274555noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252122811035264254.post-8939086001299616882010-10-28T19:04:41.817+01:002010-10-28T19:04:41.817+01:00There is an apple tree in my mother's backyard...There is an apple tree in my mother's backyard...totally there by accident. Someone discarded an apple ... and it grew a new tree. Quite a phenomenal story of survival really. Apple trees do not grown in Northern Ontario - at least none that I know of.<br /><br />When my father discovered it growing he nurtured, protected and babied the sapling. The tree does not produce large apples...the growing season is too short anyway. But abundant 'crab' apple size which I harvest yearly and turn into jelly.<br /><br />Every time I look at the tree I marvel at its will to survive and flourish.Rubyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06097711103500084389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252122811035264254.post-86944086384927285872010-10-28T14:01:41.173+01:002010-10-28T14:01:41.173+01:00Not every apple seed makes an apple.. but the ones...Not every apple seed makes an apple.. but the ones that do . if we take care of it, nurture it ..what a wondrous gift .Barbra Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08263982645593300365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252122811035264254.post-21216081397459546322010-10-28T12:10:56.642+01:002010-10-28T12:10:56.642+01:00Good Morning Ralph, great post, making today a bet...Good Morning Ralph, great post, making today a better day! I live in The Wild West and Johnny<br />Appleseed was everywhere here but the best ones for sure are those tended and cared for and like dreams, they will bare fruit if worked at a little each day.Jerry Carlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024087888949143035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252122811035264254.post-26184638942924012072010-10-28T11:52:35.774+01:002010-10-28T11:52:35.774+01:00What a nice post, Ralph! Dreams and apple trees......What a nice post, Ralph! Dreams and apple trees... Dreams and ideas. Both need to be tended to, to accomplish them. Wonderful reminder.Susan Rouxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01811139850899265798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252122811035264254.post-7031609334113040132010-10-28T11:09:28.857+01:002010-10-28T11:09:28.857+01:00Apples and apple trees certainly provide us with a...Apples and apple trees certainly provide us with abundant metaphors...<br />My students have taken to bringing me apples every day, and I was thinking one day... WHY do apple trees need to encase their seeds in those huge pieces of fruit... and I realized that it's FOR US TO EAT THEM. We depend on the vitamins and minerals in that apple for our own existence. It struck me how interdependent everything on the earth is. But it bothers me that we don't seem to give anything back to the apple tree... except beautiful artwork like your!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05600673251180423439noreply@blogger.com