APPLES UP ON TOP

While living in Maryland, we started a family tradition in 1998 of visiting Lohr's Orchard annually with friends. We selected apples from the orchard and pumpkins from the patch. After moving to Georgia in 2003, our family tradition has been on hiatus due to the lack of orchards down South (or ones that we could find anyway).

After moving to Ohio the summer of 2007, we were hoping to continue our apple picking tradition last autumn. Unfortunately, last year the apples sustained an early frost, or late frost I don't remember, but the frost prevented apple picking season from occuring. Thankfully this year is different! Yesterday, was a crisp, cool autumn afternoon complete with plenty of sunshine. Several neighbors have mentioned Lynd's Orchard to us, so we decided last weekend that this Sunday afternoon, weather permitting, we would resume our apple picking tradition. The orchard is over 80 acres and in spite of the many visitors yesterday afternoon, we rarely saw anyone. The trees were well-picked, so Noah was on Trey's shoulders for one attempt and then on Alexander's shoulders for another attempt--laughing the entire time. We decided that a trip to the orchard wasn't complete without a few samples and enjoyed walking through the orchard crunching on sweet, juicy apples. We left Lynd's Orchard with 30 pounds of apples and memories to last a life time! We're so happy that our tradition continues and are already looking forward to next year!