Mom and Dad and Baba come to visit - Part II

One of the reasons I thought it would be a good weekend to visit Salt Spring is that the annual Apple Festival was on the Sunday. Now around Belleville, where I grew up, there are lots of apple orchards, and the orchard was a pretty standard field trip through school or Girl Guides or whatever, and not only in the summer and autumn. I remember going with Girl Guides one February or so to the Kaiser's farm to look at how they kept the apples in cold storage. No kidding. And of course because of this I continually amaze (and bore) Jeremi with my vast knowledge of apple-related miscellany. (And then when Chris came to visit this August, he heard it from him too...)

Baba found an apple that was just her size. Or at least the size of her head.
At the Fulford hall they had almost three hundred kinds of apples, all grown organically on the island. We also picked up a map there directing us to several orchards that we could visit and, in certain places, have lunch. Unfortunately, lunch in most of these places consisted of apples and baked goods. This was a chart to classify the apples according to different characteristics.
Here are Bill and Julia in a heated discussion about apples and their juicing properties. If only Chris could get in on this one. So many apples...

Look at what Julia has in her hand. They're Little Julias (a tiny red variety of cherry tomato)! The woman in the back was selling all sorts of very interesting heirloom tomato seeds. We bought a few different kinds which we will now have to smuggle into Germany. I'm sure that will make them extra delicious