How you like them Apples?

On Sunday we took the boys up to Germantown, MD just north of DC to the countryside and a place called Butler’s Orchard. It was a pretty good size farm owned by the same family for probably forever, and they had a little store with some home grown products and a lot of land set out for people to pick apples and berries. We did both, got some Gala apples and some raspberries. Pretty good stuff, though I could see how you’d spend more time eating the raspberries than picking them. It appeared to be a pretty time consuming business and sort of unpleasant in the wonderful humidity, but still a good time.


Get off of there apple! These apple trees were not exactly what we expected, more like apple bushes.


Got it! When you see how many apples fall off and rot, or get eaten up by bugs, it makes you wonder how big some of those orchards in Washington must be for them to be sending cases and cases of perfect ripe apples all around the country. Crazy.

Come on guys! What are you waiting for?? There's plenty more for the pickin'!!

Adam appeared to be having a pretty good time. Though it doesn't take a whole lot to amuse him these days.

The prize find of the day, an Adam's Apple! He was however, a little big for his bucket.

Ah ha... raspberries. Pretty good, but a lot more work than fun. We spent probably twenty minutes and only got $1.80 worth. And then they started to mold by the next day. Oh well, I guess we'll never make it in the orchard or fruit picking business.