Apples

Posted on September 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged apples, Baking, Cake, Cooked fruit, Cookery, Crumble, Food, Fruit, Questions, Raw fruit, Tart, Tasty, TreesLeave a comment

Cooking and dessert apples, over the last few days we have collected lots of them.

I have questions. Can you freeze apples if you just cut them up, or do you have to cook them first?

Crumble or pie? Cake or tart? I’m thinking of what to use them in. Do I cook them till they are mush and turned to puree then freeze it. Can I make Cider? I also have lots of pears on the tree, can I make Perry? I might bake them in the oven after removing the cores and then serve them with custard?

What do you think? Any suggestions?

Apple tree

Posted on September 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged apples, Beauty, Fruit, Gardens, Green, Pears, Plants, Sunshine, TreesLeave a comment

This is a thirty eight year old apple tree that he planted in his garden. It’s huge!

It has been a very fruitful year for some fruit trees.

I was amazed, the tree is covered in huge cooking apples. My friend said he weighed one of the large ones and it was over 900 grams. It was a fantastic visit. Seeing someone else’s produce. He also has a small pear tree that is covered in conference pears.

He also has tomatoes which I’m jealous of because I didn’t get any this year!

Prompt ‘wood’

Posted on September 10, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Buddliea, Drawing, Gardening, Green, Life, Pear tree, Pine, Sketch, Sketching, TreesLeave a comment

Our prompt from band of sketchers today was wood, so instead of drawing some brown furniture I decide to draw the trees outside including a pear tree, buddliea, pine tree and other trees, lots of wood. Our garden is a thicket! I hope you can see it OK, lots of leaves. The pears on the tree are growing larger every day. X

June sketch

Posted on September 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, SketchingTagged Birds, Cherries, Drawing, June, Life, Sketch, Trees, View, WindowLeave a comment

June, before all the leaves had grown on the trees. View out the kitchen window over the main garden. Usually there is a cat in the way but not on this day. The bird feeder on the window didn’t get used. I guess being stared at by an interested looking cat isn’t a good thing when all you want to do is peacefully eat some sunflower seed kernels. This view showed the ripening cherries on the tree, gone and eaten a month later. X

Crop

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apple, Autumn, Blogging, Food, Fruit, Gardening, Life, Pear, Plant, Random, Tasty, TreesLeave a comment

Days are getting shorter now and the fruit is getting ripe. We have plenty of pears on our tree, but of all five apple trees only one fruit. But then after weeding the allotment this morning we were allowed to get a tub of apples in exchange. Some of them are different varieties, a lot of them are a bit holey but I’m hoping they will taste nice if I stew them up or cook them in a cake. If it turns out OK I will post about it.

Trees

Posted on August 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Moorland, Moors, Mountains, Roots, Sculpted, Seaside, Sketch, Trees1 Comment

The roots of trees penetrate the ground, anchoring the tree in place. Sometimes in windy conditions a tree can be shaped. Especially if there is a prevailing wind, like at the coast, where the wind blows mostly in one direction. Then the tree is sculpted and sometimes stunted, growing horizontal, pushed inwards towards the land. Like someone’s long hair blown back by the wind. Wild looking. The same can happen on high moors and mountains. Shaped and transformed.

Acorns

Posted on August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acorns, apples, Bushes, Collections, Garden, Gardening, Life, Photo, Plants, Seeds, Trees4 Comments

My hubby keeps collecting seeds and nuts at the moment. His plan is to put them in pots and try and grow them, then pass them on to friends? But what if no-one wants them? I do not need any more trees in our garden. We have two oak saplings already, a twenty five year old walnut tree which is sixty foot high, a willow tree, a pear, two or three apples, a sycamore, a mountain Ash, an Ash tree. Also a eucalyptus, three leylandii, plus others and lots of bushes. But no, he’s not satisfied. The garden is where two houses used to stand, there isn’t enough space for more plants.

Storm Francis

Posted on August 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Blowing a gale, Gale force, Life, Rain, Storm, Trees, Water, Weather, Wet, Wind2 Comments

The storm has been winding round our house all day. Trees bending, wind moaning through the gap in our badly sealed kitchen window. Gusts over 50 miles an hour. The fence is collapsing, the hanging baskets are skittering about, too heavy to take down from their brackets. I will wait and see what damage results from the storm. Meanwhile its blowing across the whole country, an unusually low pressure system for this time of year is tearing at the leaves on the trees. There will be trees blown over, heavy seas, gusting winds. Not fit for man or dog! Torrential rain falling and flooding towns and villages. Not fun. X

Good morning

Posted on August 13, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, at jodrell bank, autumn acers, Dappled shade, good morning, Landscape, Memories, Painting, TreesLeave a comment

autumnacers

Autumn Acers, painting from when I visited Jodrell bank a few years ago. I was just browsing my photos and thought how nice it would be to sit in their dappled shade this morning. Its already about 27 Celsius inside the house this morning, and hotter still outside . I’m up early to do some college work, but the heat is getting to me. The humidity is the worst thing. We had torrential rain along with another massive thunderstorm last night and more is forecast for today. Luckily I live on a hill, but i thought my car would get washed away last night because the water cascading down the hill started to look like a river. I would not be surprised if properties further down on the flat main road got flooded! So, yes, dappled shade in the garden is what I might be seeking a bit later on when I have a break. I’ll be back later.

The wooded glade

Posted on July 27, 2020July 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Garden, Hedgehog home, Photos, Pond, Setting sun, Summer, Trees, Water plant, Wooded glade4 Comments

Our garden has paths through it now, down to the pond at the bottom. We also seem to have a spring coming up in it. The trees have grown massively because they are so well watered. I Saw a couple of house sparrows picking up bird food on the ground this evening after a long cold day of rain. I went out when it brightened up and took some photos. So good to have a woodland glade in the middle of a city!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Trees