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This season is the time of apples. Climbing trees and dropping down the fruit for little hands to collect, the steamy scent of apples cooking on the stove, stumbling over boxes and baskets of fruit in the front porch, the recipes we talk about- apple cake, apple pie, apple sauce, apple cider, baked apples, apple muffins, apple cobbler. We eat them raw, sliced, dunked in yogurt dip. They are snacked on whole, often forgotten and found half eaten and browning somewhere in the house. Apples are fun to play with , they roll and they sit upright, standing in for hay bales on a wooden tractor and apple soup in a little pot in the play kitchen. Apples are the perfect fruit- sweet, local, crisp, delicious. Apples are autumn.