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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World Otter Day
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Visiting a Maratha fortress
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Ölüdeniz, Turkey
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Summer solstice
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River otters at Acadia National Park, Maine
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Twosday
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Cherry blossoms spring to life
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The mountain of 30,000 sakura
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Over and under the delta
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Celebrate Mandela Day
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World Children s Day
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International Beaver Day
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It s World Bee Day
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National Roller Coaster Day
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Spotted Lake emerges
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Rising up from the black sand like rock gods
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Fly me to the moon
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Eurasian lynx
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Corjuem Fort in Goa, India
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Boxing Day—a shopper’s delight
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Val Gardena, South Tyrol, Dolomites, Italy
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Traffic jam on the caribou highway
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Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java, Indonesia
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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting
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Badlands National Park turns 44
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World Water Day
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Bathing boxes at Brighton Beach, Australia
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Thousand Islands region, St. Lawrence River, US-Canada border
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Scottish Blackface sheep, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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