Does pruning the apple tree mean more flowers and more fruit?

[keegs]

I'm amazed by how resilient fruit trees can be. You're right though, often times if you want them to produce you need to work for it. There's nothing like a fresh crispy right off the tree.

Here's a bad photo of the tree in bloom. I took it with the phone this AM:

http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/zz215/keegsbucket/_050611_0602a.jpg