Fall Adventures

Apple Crisp, Apple Pie, Apples with Carmel, Apple Tart, Applesauce, Apple Butter, Apples with Peanut butter, Southern Apples, Apples with Cheese, Apples, Apples, Apples!

I think our trips to Sky Top Orchard are some of our all time favorite adventures.  We've been there for at least six seasons.  Some of which I have been the captain of directions and we had ended up in SC not NC(...just a wee bit lost :). Another trip I forgot to bring cash or a check and Justin kindly drove back down the mt 30 minutes away for an ATM.  Other trips we arrived and it sprinkled on us the whole time.  And many times it has been the perfect weather! BUT each and every time we have picked delicious apples, tasted wonderful donuts or cider, taken a plethora of photos, gotten great exercise walking back up the mt caring many, many pounds of apples and made delightful memories.  

I relax in these types of fields.  I love the sweet smell of the apples with the bees buzzing around the sugars.  I cherish the smiles that grace our kids faces as they bite into the deliciousness that God put into a simple apple.  I love that, my love, searches each branch to find the perfect pink on the apples and that he picks as many as I desire. There is something that puts me in my place here.  

Out here, I know that I am small.  I know that I did nothing to grow these apples, create these mountains or color the sky, yet God allows us to taste and see He is good.  This is a blessing-to rest in His creation and know He is taking care of it all.  He is here.  He is good.