Persistent Or Stubborn?

At the back of our shop, there is an apple tree.  It is actually on our neighbour's property but its branches stretch past the fence.  Every autumn, this tree litters our place with little apples...and I love it when that happens, rotting apples notwithstanding!  It reminds me of the passing of the seasons; it reminds me of beginnings and endings.

Now the temperature hovers close to freezing.  Winter is coming and the tree's leaves are almost bare.  But I notice one apple left clinging...hanging on even in the face of certain death.  Not even the strong rainstorm last night dislodged it!  Is this apple especially persistent or merely stubborn?

The answer is probably neither. It simply isn't its time to go yet.  

I have much to learn from this apple.