You've been tickling me all day with things i didn't know about plants, Kentucky, or you, Sharon, and it's been so much fun. I had a crab apple in my back yard in Upstate New York (mountains!). My sister loved to eat them, but after a bite myself I couldn't do it. But there were plenty of orchards in the rural areas around us, so we would go apple picking every fall, sometimes with a friend or two with us, picking and picking and eating and eating. One ride back was spent grabbing our favorite and yelling, "MACK-intosh!" before scarfing it between giggles as fast as we could, over and over... I don't remember a stomach ache. No apple compares to those fresh from the tree.

It must be raining up there!!

So glad I could make you smile. Thanks. I'm smiling too!

It's actually gorgeous out, and I need to finish digging the new bed for the dahlias. I've been glued to the home office all day, and now there's barely daylight left. But your articles plus plants in the mail have given me a sufficient garden buzz for today...

Great that you enjoyed them. You'll have to share pictures of all your dahlias when they bloom. I grew up loving Mom's dahlias.