Friday, August 13, 2010

Blackberry jubilee


Today was blackberry day.

We hopped bikes and trundled past the neighbors' laundry flapping on the line...

past the potato and pumpkin fields...



...down the road past Susan's farm stand. 

I had to stop and gaze at the details (thank heaven for a patient husband)
like a dead beetle I spied beside the road, trimmed in iridescent purple and blue...


and the ladybug on elegant Queen Anne's lace waving in the breeze.


After all these diversions we reached the goal: a particularly juicy blackberry thicket.

Half an hour's labor yielded a bonanza.
Blackberries.

 

Then the result:

another glorious pie.



Tomorrow I'll cycle down to Barrett Road and pick another quart. 
Blackberry gelato tomorrow.

I wish a friend would stop by for iced tea and gelato in the garden tomorrow afternoon. Any takers?