A pleasant surprise in the misting rain!

 Going out to check this years grafts; and I was shocked our blog namesake apple has come back from the dead. A Blairmont on M111 set two buds into leafing out so very late in the year! This is why I leave perhaps dead looking grafts with a touch of green out and cared for.

Hopefully it will fight on. Perhaps giving me further wood to graft this fall.

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