Miracle. All of it.

~ Live & Learn

The Great Cold Snap of 2019 has given us a ton of terms we didn’t know we needed: Frost quakes. Snow squalls. Steam fog. Now we can add another one to the list: ghost apples.  Andrew Sietsema was pruning apple trees in an icy orchard in western Michigan when he came across some.  “I guess it was just cold enough that the ice covering the apple hadn’t melted yet, but it was warm enough that the apple inside turned to complete mush (apples have a lower freezing point than water),” Sietsema told CNN.  “And when I pruned a tree it would be shaken in the process, and the mush would slip out of the bottom of the ‘ghost apple.'”…

~ Doug Criss & Gianluca Mezzofiore, Another byproduct of this extreme cold: ghost apples (CNN, February 8, 2019)

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  • Inspiration: Inspired by Albert Einstein’s quote: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

39 thoughts on “Miracle. All of it.”

    2. Lori. My thought exactly….❄⛄🌨 NOT a comforting message really. BUT we also are fortunate to see the beauty and not only the ugly in everything. 🌷🍏🍎🍂🌱🐞

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  4. What I can’t quite understand is the pruning in such a terrible cold…. the trees surely have to keep their sap firmly ‘together’ and shd not undergo the pain of being pruned in these circumstances… BUT then I’m not an apple grower… 🍎🍏 I only love to eat them. 🤗❤👍🏻

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    2. A friend of mine has an orchard and this is exactly when you have to prune apple trees. Funny, eh? Well… may be not when it is-30°C but yes, in February, in the cold…too late and you’ll have no apples, or less.

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  16. I love the duality of the photo’s image…
    my relatives have in products over a thousands of acres of apples and pears currently there is 3 feet of snow on the ground!at this closed to 120 years old homestead…w/ century farm designation. Oh, the stories of growing up visiting and staying there. One of the most scenic areas I’ve ever seen. Always thought I’d live there…
    https://www.goodfruit.com/harvest-by-the-numbers/
    info world wide
    https://ciderjournal.com/top-five-cider-producing-states-u-s/
    biggest cider producing states, hard and I think regular

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