City Slickers

Vonita

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I was in the car with my daughter and her friend, in an area we don’t normally frequent. Actually, we were on an excursion to track down some Vietnamese-inspired cuisine to cross off an item from my husband’s bucket list. So off we went.
On our way back I spotted this wonderfully healthy looking tree spotted with apples. I couldn’t help but exclaim, look over there, can you see the apples on the tree? The two girls looked over and my daughter’s friend piped up, I’ve never seen apples on trees before. She will be eleven this year. Her comments stopped me in my thoughts. Is it really possible to be that disconnected from nature? When last did I see an apple on a tree?
Yes, all those piles of apples in our supermarket every day, the most common of fruit, they really do grow on trees.

24 thoughts on “City Slickers”

  2. I grew up in a small farming community with several orchards. And spent a summer or two picking up “drops” at the orchard where my grandfather worked. I haven’t seen an apple on a tree in a couple of decades or more! My granddaughter planted some seeds from a fresh apple two years ago. It will be some time before we see that fruit.

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    1. That’s awesome! I grew up with apricots and the most amazing plum trees, so many plums we couldn’t eat them all. Also an apple tree but the apples weren’t that nice and the bugs and worms used to get them first.

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  4. Lol. I suppose in the Western world we are very spoiled that way, to have all our food in store and not to have to pick it ourselves or hunt. Nice little story.

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  5. I hadn’t thought of it, but you are right Vonita! As a City Slicker, the only way anyone is exposed to an apple tree is if you or a friend has a home with a back yard and grow your own tree – provided, of course, you have the climate for them. I grew up in a city. I remember we had cherry trees and plum trees, but interestingly, no apple trees. Living on the west coast, there are lots of orchards here, although the numbers are dwindling. Our friend has two apple trees in his back yard and we’ve helped him pick them in the fall.

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    1. We had two plum trees in our back yard, and produced so many plums we couldn’t eat them all! Also, an apple tree, but it might have been old, the apples weren’t very nice and used to get eaten by the worms.

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  6. Oh dear Vonita, I remembered my son, he was nine or ten years old when he saw a peach on the tree he was surprised… it was first time… In the city you can’t see them on the tree. We only find them in the market… And do you know, how enjoyable to pick up apples from the tree and eat them… You almost took me into the memories… Thank you, have a nice day, Love, nia (by the way still I am excitedly waiting for postman, not reached yet 🙂 )

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