We went hiking this morning on some of the trails dh and ds have been cutting with the scythes. It has become sort of a morning ritual-dh and I wake up, have a cup of coffee or tea on the deck while watching the sunrise and then go for a peaceful, cool, morning walk.
A couple of weeks ago we starting noticing all of the fruit that is growing on the hillsides. This is our first summer here so it was a wonderful surprise when we discovered the peach tree, gooseberries, black raspberries, wild blueberries and, of course, the plethora of blackberries. We even found a pawpaw down by the creek bed, which I've not seen since I was a child. They are very elusive because foxes, raccons and opossums find them extremely desirable, as well.
Today we spent a loooong time gathering and eating blueberries and raspberries. There were only a few blackberries and by the time we got to them littlewho had joined us in the meadow so we had to fight each other for those that were ready! When they really start to ripen--watch out--there must be hundreds of thousands of them out there!
Although we have our own wild blueberries, unlike cultivated blueberries they are so tiny that it would take forever to pick enough to make one smoothie. We just enjoy them as we find them and, in the meantime, we will pick blueberries at the patch a few miles from our house. They are $8/gallon and ready to be picked!
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