A seasonally drunken cow

Applecrest Farm Orchards, which started in 1913 and is open year round, is in Hampton Falls, N.H. It is considered the oldest and largest apple orchard in New Hampshire. Indeed, some assert that it’s the oldest continuously operated commercial apple orchard in the United States.

Something inspires the only cow of late
To make no more of a wall than an open gate,
And think no more of wall-builders than fools.
Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools
A cider syrup. Having tasted fruit,
She scorns a pasture withering to the root.
She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten
The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten.
She leaves them bitten when she has to fly.
She bellows on a knoll against the sky.
Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry.

— “The Cow in Apple Time,’’ by Robert Frost (1878-1963)