Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness---

One tiny tree and this is only quarter of the crop.

It has cropped as heavily as this for over twenty years. The variety is Red James Grieve and I have a Spartan planted alongside as a pollinator. The flesh on this apple is streaked pink and red a little like a blood orange. They are very juicy. :o)

Normally I would have left these a few days longer but we are supposed to be having gale force winds tomorrow and it would be a shame for them all to end up as windfalls.

A colourful visitor to the front door.

He left very quickly , when he spotted me so this was the best picture that I managed to take of him.
Was he trying to get some of the windfalls?
This is a Spartan apple tree that we use as the pollinator for our best cropping tree. I tend to leave these apples for the birds. The late butterflies glut themselves on rotting apples too.

Perhaps he was trying to enter the huge fairy ring to make a wish?
This one appeared overnight. It has been a good year for fungi