At the Orchard

I don't know how long I will live in Iowa City. Neither do my office-mates. To take advantage of our time in Iowa City we published a "Bucket List" - all the things we must do before we graduate. It includes activities such as running through the fountain downtown, going to a sporting event and eating at a variety of restaurants around the city. I'm not sure how many activities are on the list, but it takes up two full columns.

Today, we checked off another activity our our list...APPLE PICKING!

Andrea was talking for the past few weeks about coming up to visit. I e-mailed her this past week and told her to come this weekend for some apple picking. She joined Sarah, Kathrine and me to pick apples at Wilson's Orchard. Katherine is a kindred spirit as we both wore our overalls for the event.

It was the perfect Midwest day to pick apples with delicious names like Spygold and Lura Red. I've become so accustomed to the five regular species at the grocery store, now they look manufactured compared to the natural apples in the trees. The woman who guided us to our trees told us they weren't pretty but that they would taste great. They were tasty! We snacked on a few as we picked our way up and down rows. Afterwords, we enjoyed homemade apple turnovers. Iowa provides an abundance of simple pleasures!