Apples and pears

 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away', is the saying. My husband always adds 'But what does a pear at night?!' and I laugh!

This knitted red apple should have added colour to my Christmas scene, but somehow it was difficult to match up the sides with its rib stitches. It got thrown in a corner, but every time it peeped out of my stash screaming to be finished. A lot of patience was needed to get it neat and acceptable, I think I took out the sewing of the sides about 7 times.  The way these knitted apples look once finished is so cute, especially with a small garden twig added to them. This one is about 12 cm in diameter.  The other one has been nicely tucked away in the Christmas boxes, a beige one. Just any leftover yarn used brings surprises. It is a rectangular knitted piece, pulled together at the bottom and the top. They make nice pumpkins too, in orange and green!

Two out of three espalier pear trees survived at the back of our garage wall. Their blossoms are about to burst open any moment now. 'Doyenne de Comice' and 'Conférence'. The malus tree will soon be blossoming too. Its little apples will be a delicacy for the black birds and the ara's. Ara's eat those with shrieking voices, the apple juice leaking from their crooked beaks.

Sometimes the pears get funny faces and shapes, like this one.

I hope the trees will surprise me again and share their fruits plentiful. Maybe I should be knitting some more red apples with leftover yarn to add to my Christmas basket, when sitting in the garden in the summer? 

Enjoy today to the full, it is the first day of Spring!