Wild Apple picking

Well, today we decided to go for a ride, still warm enough for shorts and T shirts, we headed out after lunch with no planned route, just headed east.
We took the Woodbattle Road up in Lewis County and it is a tar road, mostly single lane and narrow.  Temp was about 70 and sunny.
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The leaves have started to change, this soft maple is turning red.  not a lot of co,ors yet..
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We came to First Bridge, I am sure Jack from "Shipslog",  http://shipslog-jack.blogspot.com/ would have a problem getting his rig thru here, my mirrors almost touched the caution markers.
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We have hundreds of Apple Trees along all the roads, these were nice and red, very hard and bitter, didn't take long to spit these out.
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This was the next tree, loaded with apples and we stopped and tasted these, they were OK but tart.  You don't eat much of the apple when you are tasting these wild apples as you can end up with a stomach ache.
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We went thru a little community called Bellwood and crossed back into tie country on the Liberty Road which was a narrow tar paved loose stone road.
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.We stopped at this big apple tree which had nice small sweet, firm apples, these we ate a couple of and headed on our way.  
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We stopped farther up and found these wild red apples, they were nice and firm and sweet so we picked some to take with us.
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We found this old cemetery called the Liberty Lots, we love wandering these places, we found that the majority of the men buried here were all Civil War Veterans, the metal fence and stone was around a Captain from an Artillery Company from the Civil War.
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Just past the Cemetery we found a nice tree with these large reds, nice flavor and taste, a little on the soft side but we picked a few for later.
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We found a row along side the road of about 5 trees, all different types, the ditch was loaded with apples and deer and bear tracks and lots of bite marks on the apples and claw marks on the trees where the bears shake them for apples.
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We found another tree, these apples were very sweet, juicy and so we picked a bag to add to our pile we had, we will take them back to the Complex and give them away to our neighbors.
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Look close and you will see the heads of wild turkeys we saw, there were about a dozen of them that crossed and flew into a field.
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Nice Road Trip, not a lot of colors yet but we have cooler temps coming along with some rain so it should be soon.
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