Temptation

A wet day in Wales, if not elsewhere, but these early apples are ripening in the rain. How tempting they look!
Was the apple really the biblical fruit imbued with the knowledge of good and evil?
Wouldn't that have been a pomegranate or a fig? Both are indigenous to the Middle East which is too hot for apples.
It's possible that early Christian scribes and scholars were tempted by a pun: the Latin word malum means both "apple" and "evil". How to resist using that word for the forbidden fruit?

Isaac Newton, William Tell, Snow White, Eve's pudding - so many apples have played their part in Western culture.

In North America a folk hero named Johnny Appleseed is credited with planting orchards all along his wandering route. John Chapman (1774-1845) was an itinerant missionary who practised what he preached: a subsistence lifestyle, poverty, celibacy, vegetarianism and a profound respect for the natural world.

Cue Joe Strummer