If it"s autumn, it"s apple season—the time for apple pie, apple cider (and, of course, apple cider doughnuts), apple cake, caramel apples, or just biting into a fresh, crisp apple, especially one you picked yourself. There are more than 7,500 varieties of apples grown in the world—about 2,500 in the US. This blackbird is enjoying a crab apple, which most people find a little sour to eat right off the tree. They do, however, work well for jelly, apple butter, or even pie filling. The term "crab apple" doesn’t refer to a specific species but is used for several types of small apples. In Celtic culture, crab apples are associated with love and marriage. Supposedly if you throw the seeds into a fire while saying the name of your love, the seeds explode if your love is true. We"d try it but we"re busy baking a pie.
Bobbing for crab apples
Today in History
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Monarch butterflies migrate south
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Mont-Saint-Michel
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National Park Week begins
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Sundance Film Festival opens in Park City
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Black Fell in England s Lake District
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Raise your hand for Teacher Appreciation Day
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Summer winds down in the Hamptons
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Valentines Day
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A crested partridge
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Happy 800th, Salisbury Cathedral
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World-class art comes to Arkansas
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The Girl Scouts celebrate 110 years
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Welcome to the Ring of Fire
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Flamenco dancers
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Celebrating National Dentist Day
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Valentines Day
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Río Arazas in Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, Spain
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Kings of the Kalahari
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Salmon migration in full swing
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