by Lynne Pearl
January 25
Jan 30 25
SPRING WITH HELLEBORES…
Blog by Lynne Pearl
The sun was shining on the conference centre’s garden, the orchard which had been asleep since all the apples fell last September. But in the sunshine there is a sign of life, snowdrops, like little points of light under the mountainside, over there in the garden-orchard.
There really are old mountains over there, like an old peak with the top chopped off and then covered in trees. It looks like the foothills of somewhere, maybe the Pyrenees in France.
This orchard though is part of what must surely have once been a grand farm. The trees are pollarded so that when the apples ripen they don’t have very far to fall and in fact standing under the branches one just reaches up and there you are, all the apples you could want. But does anyone eat these apples anymore?
I would turn them into a dessert, like apple crumble. Where you just take as many apples as you can and turn them into a classic dessert that my Grandma always made. She taught me how to peel the apples but as I remember I liked eating the peel best of all. They were cooking apples and so it was tart and good.
APPLES:
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a61938695/apple-crumble-recipe
We made apple crumble for a wedding celebration when we all got together to celebrate. The best celebrations are far away and long ago. So, we remember them and dance.
Sophie’s Kitchen: Recipe 2 Apple ://shinealightonlife.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/sophie’s-kitchen-recipe-2-apple-crumble/
But today it looks like we are welcoming a new season in. So, time to dance and sing and celebrate. It makes me want to write poetry, like I did in my travel collection ‘Road Trip River Voice.’
Art by Cath Whitehead