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.