It is amazing what you find when you look beyond the immediate.
I have been doing what I like to call Foraging Friday. I started many weeks ago when I realized I have a high bush blueberry bush on the property. They are the tiniest blueberries but real sweet! Anywho, as I looked closer at the trees in the vicinity, I found 2 more bushes! The berries were just starting to turn color but a few were ripe for picking. So, I picked what I could reach, and of course, what was ready. As picking progressed through the short season, it started getting to the point of needed a vessel to carry the fruit back to the house. Just around the same time, the raspberries along the driveway started to ripen too. Woo hoo!!!
So for every Friday, and sometimes other days, I have been picking blueberries and red and black raspberries. I get the giggles when I come in with my bounty.
The blueberries are slowing down and the raspberries have gone by – BUT, I have a new fruit to pick….blackberries!
I have been picking the fruit along my driveway. Easy access.
One Sunday I decided to walk the perimeter of the open yard. We have a thick tree line that is loaded with bushes, wild flowers and yes, the dreaded poison ivy (I need to rent some goats to take care of that). My haul was bigger than I imagined. When I looked closer to the yard line, we have tons (yes an exaggeration but way more than I could have hoped for) of raspberry and blackberry bushes. It is so funny that I never noticed them before.
My lesson of the summer….Look beyond the obvious and you might be pleasantly surprised.
Love, Blessings and Peace,
~K