Apple Blossoms for Appleton

Apple Blossoms for Appleton By Babs, Michael, and Matthew Smith. Planting Apple Blossom Trees for the city of Appleton Wisconsin.

Donate a Tree: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/M4YQVW6W3YKLC

Apple Blossom Creek TrailPut up our new birdhouse and the butterfly house.Between Cherryvale Ave and Highway JJ/Edgewood...
05/28/2026

Apple Blossom Creek Trail
Put up our new birdhouse and the butterfly house.
Between Cherryvale Ave and Highway JJ/Edgewood Dr...and the carp are spawning

05/28/2026

Going out on a limb with this post. 🌳🌲😆

Apple Blossom Festival 2027!May 8thWisconsin Kiters are coming back to Appleton with free kites for kids. We plan to ad...
05/27/2026

Apple Blossom Festival 2027!
May 8th
Wisconsin Kiters are coming back to Appleton with free kites for kids. We plan to add in lighted glow kites in the evening!
More bubbles!!
Bird Whistles and free flower brooches to celebrate Moms!
We'll have the SStoneYard AppletonBeer Garden again, NNorth Shore Bankwill sponsor again!
Paws and Petals with the Fox Valley Humane Association
Pedals and Petals with FFox Cities Greenwaysand the Fox Cities Cycling Association.

05/24/2026

⚾🚲 Fox Cities Greenways invites you to ride your bike to the ball game on Wednesday, June 24th! Grab your friends, family, or coworkers and enjoy a fun day of Wisconsin Timber Rattlers baseball.

Attendees are encouraged to bike to Neuroscience Group Field using our recommended routes, but are welcome to choose their own, as rides are not group-led. More details are found on our website: https://www.foxcitiesgreenways.org/bike-to-the-ball-game

Riders should arrive at the stadium parking lot by 9:30 AM, with the first pitch scheduled for 12:10 PM. A secure ticketed bike corral will be available for bicycle parking during the game.

Best of all, $3 from every ticket purchased goes directly to Fox Cities Greenways!

I have been GPS coordinating the new trees.The Apple blossom trees are blooming/starting to bloom/ done blooming! Lol.So...
05/21/2026

I have been GPS coordinating the new trees.
The Apple blossom trees are blooming/starting to bloom/ done blooming! Lol.
Soon we'll be sharing the Tree Locator Program with the QR code so you can locate the tree you have donated!

The Fox Cities magazine is having a photo contest.I'd love to submit some of my favorite photos from the Apple Blossom F...
05/20/2026

The Fox Cities magazine is having a photo contest.
I'd love to submit some of my favorite photos from the Apple Blossom Festival, but these are not my photos!
If you took these photos let me know and I'll submit them in your name or go ahead and submit them yourselves!
You could win:
GRAND PRIZE: One night stay at CopperLeaf Boutique Hotel, downtown Appleton
FIRST PRIZES: $75 toward a stay or dinner at Bridgewood Resort Hotel & Conference Center in Neenah
SECOND PRIZES: $50 gift card from The Frame Workshop in Appleton
THIRD PRIZES: $25 gift card from Wildbird & Backyard in Appleton

One week after Apple Blossom Festival and it is 80 degrees.Not fair that at the Festival we huddled in coats!That is Spr...
05/16/2026

One week after Apple Blossom Festival and it is 80 degrees.
Not fair that at the Festival we huddled in coats!
That is Spring in Wisconsin....

Calling all who came to the Apple Blossom Festival!We need your photos!What did you enjoy?We had kites, we had the Hot A...
05/12/2026

Calling all who came to the Apple Blossom Festival!
We need your photos!
What did you enjoy?
We had kites, we had the Hot Air Balloon blast! But sometimes it's the little things...
Here are some of my favorite photos..send us your photos to add to our collection!

05/11/2026

Wisconsin might be one of the most beautifully confused states in America. 🧀🌲🌊💀
Because somehow this one state said:
“What if we put Great Lakes coastlines, endless dairy farms, deep forests, college towns, frozen tundra energy, Door County, lake cabins, hunting land, and weather that changes its mind every 12 minutes all in one place?”
And then it actually worked. 😭
Wisconsin stretches from Lake Superior and the Northwoods all the way down to farmland, Madison, Milwaukee, and the Illinois border like the state couldn’t decide whether it wanted to be a forest, a farm, a lake house, or a Packers tailgate.
Up north feels like a completely different universe:
• pine forests everywhere 🌲
• lakes hiding behind more lakes
• cabins with wood smoke in the air
• deer acting like local government
• and roads where your GPS basically says “good luck” 💀
Then you hit central Wisconsin and suddenly it’s:
• cranberry bogs
• dairy farms
• two-lane highways
• tractors moving at 14 mph
• random supper clubs
• and towns where everyone somehow knows your uncle 😭
By the time you reach southern Wisconsin?
It turns into:
• Madison traffic
• Milwaukee energy
• college football arguments
• cheese curds
• construction cones
• and people pretending Lake Michigan wind doesn’t hurt their feelings. 💀
And then there’s Door County —
which honestly looks like Wisconsin stuck a little vacation peninsula into Lake Michigan and said,
“Here. Go eat cherries and act fancy for the weekend.” 🍒🌊
Only in Wisconsin can you wake up near a frozen lake, drive past 47 dairy farms, hit a Kwik Trip, dodge a deer, argue about the Packers, and still end the day watching the sunset over Lake Michigan like nothing about that was unusual.
Mountains? No.
Personality? Too much.
Cheese? Absolutely.
Lakes? Everywhere.
Weather? Unsupervised.
Roads? Emotionally damaged.
And somehow despite all the chaos…
Wisconsin still feels balanced.
Northwoods.
Farmland.
Great Lakes.
Cabins.
Supper clubs.
College towns.
Frozen mornings.
Summer festivals.
Backroads.
Beer.
Brats.
And that one guy wearing shorts in 31° weather.
It’s one of the only states where you can drive a few hours in any direction and feel like you entered a completely different Midwest universe — while still knowing immediately:
“Yeah… this is definitely Wisconsin.” 🧀🌲🌊😭

Apple Blossom Festival:Great wind for kites!But the wind did not calm down for the Hot Air Balloons.So we had great food...
05/10/2026

Apple Blossom Festival:
Great wind for kites!
But the wind did not calm down for the Hot Air Balloons.
So we had great food, beer, games, and music from Pearl Street.
And we're warmed up with the Hot Air Blast!
Great grand finale!

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