After that awful freeze, which had icicles hanging from everything, I thought the apple tree would give me a rest. And if it can get beyond that, one would think I could successfully plant a bunch of fruit trees.

Here is a pic of the apple tree, just before we got our rain and as overcast as it is I gladly welcome the rain.

My hope for a rest with this tree is the bears like it. They eat the green apples, then when the ripe ones are left at the top, shake the tree for those of value. I end up with bushels of half eaten apples to clean up. Aking to still cleaning up after kids.

And a pic of the lilacs. They survived too, but are about half their normal size.