4 cups fresh apples, peeled and sliced 1¼ cups sugar 3 tablespoons flour ½ teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon nutmeg ¼ teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons butter Top and bottom pie crust
The Gentle Border
Split-rail fences don’t shout “keep out.” They lean, they shift, they invite. And in western North Carolina, they remind us that some lines are meant to hold, not harden.