blueberries!

[jinian]

Cottage Gardens, my favorite blueberry farm, isn't open yet this year; it seems like the berries have been a little slow to ripen, possibly due to the week of anomalous coolth we have just had. So rubricity and I went to Mountain View, a lovely place near Everett with very pleasant breezes which carry smells of cow dung an awful lot of the time. They had just opened for the season yesterday, and the branches were heavy with berries. I think I only picked about ten bushes, nowhere near completely, and I came away with eight and a third pounds of blueberries. Pie time! I intend to evaluate blueberries and gooseberries combined, which could be good or bad, I'm not sure.

I also got to talk to Llyra and Sean, though roobug was off somewhere baking a buckle. Blueberry conversations are great, low-pressure and relaxing, like crafting conversations but out in the sun and the wind with delicious snacks in your hands at all times.

Also: $1.25 a pound.

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[shelly-rae.livejournal.com]

Out here in the boonies we pick blueberries (and raspberries!!) at Blue Dog Farms where the blueberries are not only delicious but organic too! The u-pick crop only lasts a few days and it opened this week. Oh happy day!
Anon

P.S. This icon is of a raspberry almond tart--yum!

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i bought cherries and peaches at the store today. mmm!

[cheesepuppet.livejournal.com]

Baking a buckle? Like she pulled one off a belt and stuck it in a pie?

[roobug.livejournal.com]

heh. A buckle is like an upside-down cobbler, with crumb topping. or maybe it's like a betty? :)

[roobug.livejournal.com]

and mine was a raspberry buckle. :)

huckleberries - I heard you were on the lookout

[roobug.livejournal.com]

There are lots of wild red huckleberries on the old growth trail across the street from south whidbey state park, by the way. Lots. There's two bushes down the road from me, not too far, but that's hardly any berries, what, a cup?