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Apples to Apples on the Blog over the Years

A few days ago I posted Erika and two of the grandkids walking in the apple orchard.

Then Steve’s art on the mantel with the Granny Smith apple.

Just for fun I did a google search – Apple and rutheh. Quite a few photos of apples or some form of apples appeared in the results. Many apple photos over the years of blogging. Some other fruit appeared and even some tomatoes as I scrolled down. Here are a few examples of apple photos from previous posts.

There is the Before they Get to the Store post showing how Honey Crisps are grown in Washington.

An early blog post from August 2009 Anna is 15 now

Like a science experiment. Drastic temperature change. Anna (5) said “Get your camera and take a picture. You could win a prize!”

So this is what it looks like when “the bottom falls out”!

Cider making in North Carolina in the first photo and a Cider Press in Pennsylvania in second.

Apple Butter Annie Oakley’s Kitchen Southside Farmer’s Market

https://rutheh.com/2013/11/08/half-apples-baked-in-balsamic-with-a-dot-of-butter/

Olive Oil Apple Juice and Tiki Torch Fuel

There is a guest blog from Wildflour Bakery in Alaska

My sister in law’s Apple Pie in Washington

Real fruit and Fake fruit in Hardy Virginia. https://rutheh.com/2017/09/09/apple-picking-and-farm-market-checkout-line/

January 15, 2019 by Ruth Categories: foodTags: Apfel nuss Torte, apfelgalerie, apple, apple cider, apple juice, apple orchard, apple picking, apple pie, Apple Store, applesauce, baking, cider, farm, fruit bowl, orchard, still life, Wildflour Bakery Alaska 15 Comments

Silent Sunday

November 17, 2018 by Ruth Categories: Photography, silent SundayTags: autumn, leaf, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, silent Sunday, snow, still life, Tulip Tree, weather 8 Comments

Apfelgalerie Still Life

In addition to ice cream, I love to eat fruit. I know there are people who do not. This fruit bowl was so inviting. Bought three kinds of apples after sampling each and also the golden Mirabellen.

A different kind of apple store- Apfelgalerie, Berlin.

September 13, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: apfelgalerie, apple, Berlin, food, fruit, fruit bowl, Mirabellen, pears, photography, plums, postaday, still life, travel 13 Comments

Still Life With Stuff in the House

My next door neighbor, who is an artist, suggested I put things together in my house, create a still life and photograph them.

I shot the flowers in the pottery vase the other day.

Here is today’s collection.

July 15, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: art, artist, Belleek, bunny, collections, dining room, figurine, flowers, knitting, neighbor, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, still life, vase 7 Comments

Alabaster Eggs Still Life

Saw these all lined up on the dining room mantel this afternoon. The light coming in through the stained glass window. I thought it looked serene

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December 4, 2017 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: art, dining room, eggs, home, house, peaceful, photography, postaday, serene, shadow, still life, weekly photo challenge 6 Comments

Alstroemeria

In a hammered aluminum pitcher and afternoon light.

Alstroemeria or Lily of the Incas

Sometimes you need to brighten up your surroundings

June 15, 2017June 16, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Garden, PhotographyTags: alstroemeria, aluminum, bouquet, flowers, hammered aluminum, iPhone photography, kitchen, Lily of the Incas, postaday, still life 7 Comments

Front Porch Still-Life at Dusk

Reblogged From March 2010 -if you’ve followed since the start, you remember this photograph
Old seltzer bottles, a birdcage, the texture of the wicker, some stained glass at dusk.
J’s front porch with the sun sinking behind. Condensation inside the old glass, the metal tops. Artists usually arrange inanimate objects to create a still-life to paint or draw. This was already there, waiting.

But then it is an artist’s house.
Still Life, a grouping of inanimate objects arranged in a pleasing composition

Setting sun through old turquoise and plain glass seltzer bottles

March 16, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: artist house, design, front porch, glass, postaday, reblog, seltzer bottles, still life, sunset, turquoise 12 Comments

Driveway Still Life

Eastern Redbud and raindrops on gravel with weeds

October 25, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: autumn, Eastern Redbud, iPhone photography, leaves, postaday, rain, season, still life, weather 9 Comments

Happy Place: Weekly Photo Challenge

Krista Stevens at WordPress challenged bloggers this week with this prompt “Have you ever felt like the world was being a bit too rowdy? Where things and people were pushing in, crowding out your quiet thoughts — the ones that need time and space to surface?” Yes, Krista, yes.

My number one Happy Place? cuddling a grandchild in my arms, getting them to smile or the growing up grandchildren sitting next to me on the couch, reading a book or playing a game. Laughing with grandchildren is the best.

And there’s the knitting I go to-another happy place- a form of meditation, the repetition- but this post shows my kitchen where I can ward off winter chills (or autumn chills) and feel all is right in the world. (Even if it’s not.)

——————————–resposted from original December 2011———————-

First Day of Winter Still Life in My Kitchen

Friends joined me for tea, even though they weren’t in Pittsburgh.

You can see out the kitchen back door window to the back porch and garage, the bare trees. The shortest day of light. Winter officially here.

Two dear friends in KY sent a shipment of fancy English muffins and the Fed Ex man delivered them Wednesday afternoon. It seemed a good time to split one, toast it and spread some butter (with my Grandmother’s silver butter knife) and spoon some apricot preserves.

Went to fire up the kettle to brew tea but I’d burned the kettle dry on Monday so boiled a pot of water to make the tea. Pulled out the camera on the phone to capture the scene

Oranges were on sale 10 for $2 today and lately they were almost a dollar apiece.

A faithful blog reader in Virgina, C, (and best friend of a my good friend J in Omaha) made me the little quilted mug mat last year and it was J who gave me the lidded butter dish another year. The Botanic Garden mug matches my mother’s cereal bowls.

I was home alone but in the presence of friends and family remembered. Finding the joy of winter. My neighbor called to report a vibrant rainbow spotting and perhaps I could photograph it. i went outside and it was still raining and saw the colored arch across the street. I photographed it but it didn’t make the cut for posting but i appreciate when people see something and I come to mind. There was thunder and lightning, too.

Yes, that is a stack of woven potholders on the left counter top.

October 15, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: apricot preserves, comfort, English muffin, food, grandchildren, happy place, home, kitchen, knitting, oranges, photography, postaday, still life, tea, weather, weekly photo challenge, winter 8 Comments

A Variety of Reds in my Kitchen, Photographed with a New Mirrorless

Red Still Life in the Kitchen Photographed with Mirrorless Camera

Portable, lightweignt. Able to fit in a small bag instead of a huge one. Not so bulky.

Interchangeable lenses. A postive review all around.

You don’t always want to lug heavy DSLRs and weighty (but wonderful) glass around your neck.

A phone camera isn’t sufficient as an alternative.

AND there was the bonus of a hefty instant rebate at time of purchase.

I’d been looking and thinking about mirrorless cameras for awhile.

Reading reviews, I thought it would be a Fuji but the SONY a5000 had an affordable 20.1 Megapixel price that seemed fortuitous.

I’m satisfied with the results so far. Will keep experimenting.

January 11, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: apples, camera, Ceramics, food, fruit, fruit bowl, kitchen, mirrorless camera, pears, photography, postaday, pyrex bowl, still life, vintage 13 Comments

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