Last Thursday I had a rare day off work. Toby was at preschool, and the girls at school, so it was just CB and I at home. One of our neighbours had told CB that they had a whole lot of unpicked plums and apples in their orchard, and we were free to go and grab some. Our orchard is a few years behind and we don’t yet have excess fruit. So we headed over to pick some fruit, and explore their garden. It’s always fun to see what our friends and neighbours are growing. The apples were beautiful – look at those colours!
We spent an hour picking plums and apples, and shooting the breeze with our neighbour. I then spent the weekend making plum jam and apple sauce. This is how life should be!
Love it! Makes me miss having a dog!
Oh wow! Do you know I have never been fruit picking but I so want to take the boys xx
There really is nothing better than picking your own fruit – and kids will always eat any fruit they pick! It must make it taste better lol
I know – I love the gate too. I have put an order in to CB for a similar one!
Her name is Molly and she thinks she is a big farm dog – absolutely hilarious. My kids adore her.
Bet that felt like a lot of money at the time!
Oh wow how wonderful! fruit picking is on my list of 'must do's' with my kids. They would get such a kick out of it. What lovely photos.
Indeed, this is how I would love life to be! So wonderful. I like their gate warning system, so rustic! x
Lovely photos – all that gorgeous fruit! And the dog is cute too! (Visiting via Maxabella's Weekend Rewind)
Reminds me of life in NZ as a kid, fruit everywhere! Nothing like picking apples and chewing the fat! As an aside I used to thin apples for $5 an hour when I was 17!
Oh wow – beautiful fruit and photo's. How I'd love my own orchard in my backyard!
Wow that fruit looks soooo yummy!
I'm so jealous of the netting over that orchard! The bloody cockatoos ripped through my orchard this summer before I could get a net up. I managed to salvage a few apricots and the plums, and luckily the apples were still tiny, so we managed to net that. But they ate most of my almonds, peaches and pears. Aaaargh!
The tools are just decorative. I'd love to be able to grow tropical fruit 🙂
Why are the gardening tools hanging on the gate? Decoration or for another purpose? Those apples are gorgeous and are those pears or odd shaped apples? Beautiful! Wishing I lived further down south so we could enjoy fresh seasonal fruit! North Queensland means lots of tropical fruit like mangoes & lychees but no fresh plums, pears & apples. Also, I'd love to taste fresh berries off the vine!