apples and nighthawks

I am so happy that my seed-grown apple tree has produced fruit. Here are two more photos of apples from it. Are they not lovely? They say that fruit from a tree grown from seed will not be true to the parent, and maybe not, but these apples are flavorful and practically flawless.



(The light in the lower one is weird because it was nighttime and I tried to supplement the light over the stove with light from a crank flashlight, which is very blue. The coins in the foreground are from Timor-Leste...