First we hit the North Garden Apple Festival...
where plenty of apples were set out for sampling and purchasing...
and more were chopped and stewed in vats of apple butter.
Craftsmen set out their wares, including handmade brooms, baskets, glassware, cheese, and condiments.
and bands played throughout the afternoon...
as odd school-buses creaked by...
We wandered the stalls and, in the orchard itself, ate a delicious concoction of spiced apples and marscapone cheese served with artisan bread before heading to Carter Mountain Trail to pick our own apples.
Bins of Staymen, Pink Lady, Gala, Fuji, Red Delicious, Pippen, Winesap, and various guords allowed folks to get fresh apples without heading to the orchards...
but we ventured to the orchards to pick our own from the fruit-laden branches
or the ground beneath...
It was good to support local (well, reasonably local at three hours away) orchards and to wander among the trees, crunching the juicy fruit as we picked it. We took home several pounds as well as the odd apple cider slushy and some fabulous cider doughnuts which look like the doughnuts Lady dips in coffee in Lady and the Tramp!
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