I may be slightly obsessed.

Shrouded Stars🌟 It was so fun painting Hidden Stars that I had to make a mirrored version with dark wings :)

Video of the painting process:

May I present the best apple:

Apple farmers produce exact copies of their desired fruit through asexual reproduction; grafting, budding, or layering. If you graft a branch from a "Ludacrisp" producing tree, then the resulting tree will produce "Ludacrisp" apples.

What this means, though, is that every apple tree that has ever grown from a seed has the potential to be a new variety of apple that no one has ever seen before. Most of these will be inedible. Some will be perfect for making apple juice or apple cider (soft or hard). Sometimes, if the wind is fair and the stars align, you get a "Ludacrisp"; a new apple variety that is sweeter, crisper, more delicious than any that has come before. (This is speculation, I have never had the pleasure of eating a "Ludacrisp" apple.)

I do not know much about apples in other countries, but I have lived in both the USA and the UK long enough to learn about their native apples, and the history is incredible.

There are also a lot of apple hobbyists who grow varieties from seeds to see what happens. Apple historians exist, too, though I'm not sure that's what they're called, and they scour the countryside for lost or abandoned trees.

As in, do any of your memories take place during the 90s (yes, a single memory from 1999 counts).

Blooming heather in the Highlands

2014 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert with Daniel Barenboim — Johann Strauss I, Radetzky March, Op. 228