Through apple boughs

"And round about the breeze murmurs cool through apple boughs,

and slumber streams from quivering leaves."

    Those lines are by Sappho, written in the 6th. century BC,

 and the moment they record is one of the ninety-nine "moments of happiness" in George Myerson's book A Private History Of Happiness: Ninety-Nine Moments of Joy from Around the World, of which more here.

    The apples themselves are in my parents' garden, where we had a 'moment of happiness' photographing them and picking a few this afternoon.