111.   Thursday, I intend to give thanks for Sweet Pea and all her offspring, those in my laundry room and those under my apple tree.

112.   Turn around and look for the old apple tree, broken in a recent snowstorm, the last survivor of a pre-Revolutionary orchard.

113.   Well-maintained apple trees can set more fruit than the trees can support.

114.   Wells, apple trees and crops need rain.

115.   We drove in past rows of apple trees.

116.   We had our plum trees, apple trees, peach trees and pecans.

117.   When Devoto, a one-time home builder, and his wife, Susan, moved to Sebastopol two decades ago they bought property that was filled with apple trees.

118.   When Susan and Wayne Barcomb lived in Cohasset, their sun-dappled yard was landscaped with traditional oaks, apple trees, and lilacs.

119.   When I came back to the interior last year it was autumn, and the apple trees were yielding their bounty in red-gold piles.

120.   When the settlers finally came, he would return to his nursery and sell his apple trees to make their lives more comfortable.