Tree to Pie

Remember our backyard plum tree, the one felled by Hurricane Fiona? The remediation of the tree to vertical didn’t work out—we followed advice from our Siberian handyman that, untethered, it would find its way back; it didn’t.But the tree is undeterred by its near-horizontal state: after a mediocre plum crop two years ago, this year’s harvest is bountiful, and the tree is filled with beautiful, firm, tart plums like this:I picked a few pounds of plums yesterday, and turned them into a plum pie that we will have for dessert tonight:I have another pie shell in the freezer and I’m going to try turning some of the tiny apples from our orchard into an apple pie next.