About half a mile up the hill from where I live there’s a sort of public, not quite
orchard, by which I mean there are a few apple trees apparently growing wild, and
when they bear fruit nobody’s going to stop you walking in and taking a few apples.
So I was up bright and early and was out before the binmen came, and walked up, and there was not a single apple to be found – neither on the trees nor on the ground. Gotta say I’m not totally in touch with the cycles of apple production but I thought I found a lot this time last year.
Still, an early walk is never to be despised and there was still some nature to be seen, if not of the malus variety.
There were spider webs in the apple trees:
Mushrooms on the ground:
And cats. Yes, there are always cats.
