Opportunity

You can count the seeds in an apple,
but you can't count the apples in a seed."
Pastor Jim Partington, England




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Antique Apples

September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn."
-   Robert Lowell

Well, it's officially Fall at our house.

Mr. D. has gone fishing.
And I'm enjoying apples.  

Edited for Show and Tell Friday at My Romantic Home

                                                  So here's my version of "enjoying apples"

                                                 Vintage pottery with an apple theme

 This  is early 1900's Weller in the Baldwin Apple pattern.
It belonged to my Grandmother.

It gets moved around in the living room.  Right now it's back on the mantle.

Roseville pottery in Green Apple Blossom from the forties.
My  favorite pattern.

                                                              I love the twig handles

 

A Ewer and a small Cachepot

Pink Apple Blossom Teapot, Creamer and Sugar

 

I lost the lid to the sugar bowl the last time we moved.

I think I left it in the wrapping paper.  sigh.

And lastly I'll sneak in this hand-painted Cider Set

I keep it in a small china cupboard in the den

because it has a serious crack on the inside

 

I once thought of getting rid of it. 

  So glad I didn't.

I have a theory about the difference between a Cider Set

and a Lemonade Set.

I think it's the cups.

  Cider cups have handles, and lemonade cups don't. 

And of course I loved this one because

it had a bird on a branch.

 Chirp!