Pip visits the May Apples
climb
Pip shinned up the little Apple tree…
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Little
…checked on the little apples…
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Spy
…spied one over on another branch…
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big!
…and went to give it some little Pip-love!
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look!
And look over there…
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Double Joy
…two even bigger little apples…
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Huge
…and a huge one! It’s been cool, damp and windy, but the apples have been growing delightfully! We’ve been picking aphids and little dark worms off the leaves – the chickadees are helping! This year there are at least ten apples on our four year old Gravenstein apple tree. I wonder how many we’ll end up with? Hopefully they aren’t wormy!
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Quimper Hittys 
❤️
A promise of harvest! We are watching the apples grow day by day!
My heart in is in my throat watching Pip shimmying around on a tree! Please, be careful up there!
Pip fell out of the tree several times as I was taking the photos, as it was a very windy day! She is so small she bounces, but so intrepid she bounces right back up! The only real danger really is that she will drop down some inaccessible crevice!
I’ll bet that Pip enjoys that jaunt at this time of year to see extended relatives in development. It’s a fascinating process, isn’t it? Our apples are in about the same stage of development also.
We just love watching them grow! We are very glad of the chickadees who are helping with pest control!
Pip is such a fine little appwatcher! What a nice harvest to anticipate!! Hope they all grow and ripen beautifully.
So sweet! The images make me think of some sort of fairy tale 🙂