Blackberries grow wild along every country road (and quite a few city streets) in Lane County. In August and September, just about everybody picks at least a few handfuls. These bushes are growing in a sunny spot on the lakeshore just a few yards from our front door. So for the past couple of weeks we've been eating a bowl of these tasty little anti-oxidants almost every morning.
One of these days, I'll get serious and pick enough to pop in the freezer for later on when we're somewhere down the road. The taste always brings back great summer memories!
All kinds of berries do well in this climate. Those long winter rains we used to get so tired of are good for them. We've already eaten a few pounds of blueberries (from the "Alvadore gardens"). Strawberries are good here too but we missed their main season, which is in June.
We've been having a heat-wave -- several days of high 90s weather --very rare for this area. The heat is making the berries very sweet. The best berries here were hanging over the water. It felt good to go wading for them.
The best berries are always picked from a tube, raft or canoe while floating the river. Fewer car fumes.
Congratulations on your listing on the Blog home page. Nice write-up. I guess this makes you official bloggers!
-geoff
Posted by: Geoff | August 19, 2008 at 06:53 PM