11.9.08

A is for apple.

"These trees--or trees like these, anyway--were all planted in the early 1900s," you said wistfully, the breeze rushing through the windows and tangling my hair as we drove through the orchards along a winding highway. You knew everything, and tirelessly answered my every pointless query with a simplicity and wonder both wise and childlike. You taught me more than facts and dates, you showed me a different way to view the world, and now that I no longer have anyone who will tell me the difference between a Fuji and a Gala I've forgotten how to see.

11 comments:

  1. Heather Anne HoganSeptember 11, 2008 at 8:14 AM

    What's this?! We're starting over? Yeeees!

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  2. katSeptember 11, 2008 at 8:20 AM

    well, i did say i was going to start over....

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  3. JennieSeptember 11, 2008 at 9:54 AM

    I'm so glad you started over.

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  4. eclecticSeptember 11, 2008 at 10:45 AM

    But, but, but... I know the difference between Fujis and Galas, and you have ME!!!

    Also, YAY!! A is for beginning Again!!!

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  5. katSeptember 11, 2008 at 10:49 AM

    do you know what deer eat in the winter? i've always wondered what deer eat in the winter.

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  6. eclecticSeptember 11, 2008 at 11:11 AM

    YES I DO! At least the mule deer out here, I know.

    They forage leaves and grass from under trees until they can't reach any even by pawing through the snow (which is softer and easier to paw through under the trees).

    At that point they come into town to munch arborvidea trees (which is why a lot of stingy homeowners put chicken wire around their arborvidea, which makes me think of those people as stingy), or they forage leaves from what we call "buck brush" although I'm certain is has a fancier name.

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  7. katSeptember 11, 2008 at 11:18 AM

    yay! expect a barrage of text messages at all hours of the day with more stupid questions!

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  8. Grad School RejectSeptember 11, 2008 at 4:33 PM

    I think Shari may be the smartest most wonderful person in the world.

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  9. AbigailSeptember 11, 2008 at 6:41 PM

    shari, i think we should steal people's chicken wire and then say it was the deer! they're getting smarter, jackasses!

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  10. mattSeptember 11, 2008 at 9:27 PM

    that's a dangerously fun idea...

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  11. eclecticSeptember 12, 2008 at 1:44 AM

    Squee! OK, so at TM'09, we can drink just enough to be brave (but not so much that we can't be quiet), and then we can go on a midnight chicken-wire raid. For the deer!!

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