Bowl of Cherries

by AnnaJo Vahle

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Bowl of Cherries

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AnnaJo Vahle

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I photographed this pretty little bowl of cherries on our dining room table. I found this information on their website.
Skylar Rae cherries are not your everyday sweet cherry. They’re actually pretty darned special. If it’s true that we first taste food with our eyes, your eyes will be drooling when they get a look at these beauties. Their beautiful golden color skin with an orange-red blush is different from many of the typical red cherries you find. The fruit is firm and the flesh is rather translucent and colorless, again quite different than your average sweet cherry. We absolutely adore firm cherries and every one of these cherries was like a little gem, beautiful, firm, and sweet. In fact, Skylar Rae cherries are among the sweetest cherries we’ve ever tried. They’re also crisp, making them delicious to eat fresh as well as to use in any of your favorite tasty creations that call for sweet cherries.
Discovering a unique cherry by chance on a farm is a rare natural event, but that’s just what happened back in 2004 for the Toftness family of Wenatchee, WA and Tip Top Orchards. Usually these chance sightings don’t produce a cherry you can grow at scale, but this special cherry was different.
Its parents are still unknown today, but we do know Skylar Rae® cherries are genetically different from Rainier and other sweet cherry varieties. The brand name behind this special cherry was chosen to honor Skylar Rae Toftness, the late daughter of Troy and Kim Toftness.

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July 8th, 2021

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