Blackberry picking is always a favorite end of summer treat. It's time now and I find myself enjoying the dickens out of it once again. It brings back memories of the first time as a new bride, picking with my little girls in back packs and front packs, hitting the patch with a friend who told me she was pregnant, and then there was the year a friend tried to make a blackberry pie for me as a special favor. I valiantly tried to eat it, with a smile on my face. She watched and commented,"You don't like blackberry pie do you?" I admitted I didn't and she chided me and asked me why I didn't say so. I confessed that I didn't want to spoil her happiness by telling her I didn't like blackberry pie when she had announced so triumphantly that she had made this wonderful pie just for me!!! But no I really detest blackberry pie and was having a hard time trying to swallow bites of it. She laughed and took the pie away.
I like raw blackberries or frozen blackberries but I don't like the flavor when they are cooked. They really change considerably. So I pick berries and chuckle over the many memories I have of blackberry season which is a special quiet activity I enjoy as summer ends and fall begins.
I've got a ring of blackberry bushes around our clearing in the woods so there is good picking for a couple of weeks.
Time to head out there and talk to God while I enjoy the bounty He has provided!
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How wonderful! Sadly here blackberries do not grow well, I think it has to do with the high heat and lack of summer rain! Enjoy!!!
Sounds delish! I just love berries. My dad always picked black raspberries and he and mom made the best jelly ever. I always had plenty to last the year. They no longer do it as the raspberries just don't do as well around here now. I really miss that jelly though! I still have some frozen berries in the freezer that I save for special occasions.
Yeah! Poor horse! He'll got the way of the donkey!
Yum! Blackberries are so delicious!
Wow we are way past blackberries. I LOVE them, but am like you with the cooking of them. Same with blueberries. I could eat raw ones all day long but will gag if they are cooked into something. Cherry too.
Have fun and eat some for me!
@firefighterswife - It might be your soil is not acid enough too!@GrannyHappyNanny - My hubby grew up eating black raspberries but we don't have them here.@cutepickles1 - Yay!! for you being able to cook again on a stove in the house!!! I also was saying yesterday how nice it is to have a kitchen with an electric stove and hot and cold running water right next to each other while Song and I were canning peaches!@Donkey_Guy_10 - sounded like it!@TheCheshireGrins - I would really miss berries of all kinds if I couldn't get them!@Littleoldladyinashoe - Ok I'll think of you as I do that!