Original woodblock print;
5.25" x 7.25". Edition of 50; 8 remaining

Sophie said she’d planted the apple sapling almost 30 years ago, part of her class project in 3rd grade. She’d wanted it on the side yard of their Montana ranch where she could watch it grow from her bedroom window. As she looked out on it now, she wondered how many apples from it she’d picked and eaten, or thrown at someone, or how many apple pies she’d made. All that remained hanging on were two shriveled and snow covered stragglers, too late for eating.

She’d woken on her last morning at the ranch to see the season’s first snow had settled overnight on gray branches. It came as a shock and made it hard to think about the glacially long months of winter coming. But for Sophie the beginning of winter had a beauty of its own, easing some of the sting.

And now, as the last of another kind of straggler, she was leaving the ranch and heading off to a new vocation, teaching at a Canadian university, on the western shore of Lake Ontario. She wanted to hope for a milder winter there, and maybe to plant an apple tree in the spring.

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