Check out these babies — three really big bowls like this, filled with Jonathan apples. I like these apples a lot; they taste more like green apples than red ones and they ripen a lot earlier than my Granny Smith apples. I believe we harvested these last Thursday, September 6th. That was even a little late, because there were a lot on the ground that we left out there for birds and other animals to eat. I was surprised they were falling off the tree so much, but we still got a lot for our use.

I made an apple pie yesterday and shared with some friends who invited us to dinner. It came out pretty good, although next time, I’m going to try a different recipe I have that doesn’t have so much cinnamon and has a little more allspice. Allspice is the classic apple pie enhancer.