Apple Tree

When our son was in 1st or 2nd grade, he brought home a delicious red apple seed from school so we could watch it germinate.  It was in a plastic baggie with a little dirt and a damp paper towel, so we taped it to the window. To our surprise, this little seed did actually sprout after a few weeks.  We then planted it in a small container and kept it indoors on the window sill.  

When the sprout grew tall enough, we transferred it outside to the middle of the back yard.  Despite several markers, it was mowed over several times.  Gradually, like the little engine that could, the apple tree took off.

Here's that seedling now pictured with the one who originally planted it..

When this tree begins to produce it's first apples, our son may be out of college and have children of his own.  What a special treat some day to pick apples from the tree he started from a seed.