The Orchard Year

Christmas Landscape Tonight the wind gnaws With teeth of glass, The jackdaw shivers In caged branches of iron, T...

    My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill...

The last couple of days have been cold and  foggy and the orchards have been swathed in fog, lovely and atmospheric. The leaves are still...

I know I said that the apple picking was almost over but take a look at the apples on this tree. Photograph taken today the first day ...

Well it's almost over, apple picking started late this year and the wet autumn has made it pretty tough going, there have been days when...

Today, 21st October is Apple Day. Apple Day was launched in 1990 by Common Ground. The aspiration was to create a calendar custom, an a...

The sun came out late this afternoon, it was surprisingly warm for so late in October. Along with the sun came the dragonflies, it was ni...