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October 26, 2011

Apple Picking Day



Today was a beautiful day to pick apples  with several friends and their children at Carter Mountain Orchard.  I love this mountaintop orchard and have been going there since my children were small.


This tree makes me think of a giant wreath.  The apples were beautiful!  If you didn't want to pick your own, you could buy them at a higher price already picked.



Notice the tiny honeybee.  He/she is so important in making all this happen!





The big red barn at the orchard has a snack bar and a gift shop.  We bought some raspberry wine.



I have to share this with you.  I told my friend when we were picking apples  not to touch a vine that was growing around the tree trunk because it may be poison ivy.  Her reply was, "it's not poison ivy, it's a plant called "Virginia Creeper".   The funny part of this story is that I am a "native Virginian" and she is from South Africa!



It was  hazy but this is the view of Charlottesville from  the orchard.  


There are beautiful vineyards on the property also.

7 comments:

  1. The apples look delicious, those trees look like the branches are going to break! Nice views!

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  2. We have a similar orchard here and I love it like you do - such a fun time. Great photos. sandie

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  3. What a great day to be out enjoying the warmth of fall!! I had to chuckle at the poison ivy...I got by this year without too much trouble from it, but I know what to look for now thanks to people like you who told me what to look for when I posted about getting it!

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  4. Wow - thanks for the scenic photos, as I will probably never get to see Charlottesville in person. The two vines must look a lot alike. I posted photos of red vines awhile back and got lots of comments about them being poisonous. But a few people knew that the were Virginia Creepers. I wasn't one of them, I just knew they were pretty.

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  5. Such a fun day. Thanks for sharing it with us all. Hugs, lJ

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  6. What a gorgeous view! What a fun day, who goes to apple orchards and buy's apples instead of picking LOL! Glad it was not poison ivy!!

    Carol

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  7. Your friend was wrong. I picked apples there and got poison ivy. :(

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