Blackberry Picking

Today I was hoping the blackberries would be ripe!  Well, they sort of were.  We went to Big Finn Hill Park. We had never been there before, it is a nice little park.  We will have to go  back with a picnic lunch.

This was the most ripe blackberries in one place in the whole park.

Lon is not impressed with the thorns. It was fun to get out of the house and do something, but this thorn thing, not so much

But he did get into a rhythm

8 cups of berries! Yummy!

and what we did with them.

We went up to Albertson's to get some cilantro we forgot to get for dinner. One of the nice ladies that work there suggested we go out back of the store, the berries there were ripe and pretty good. And very easy to get.   We did not have a bucket with us, so she gave us a bakery bucket! Super nice. We were having lots of fun getting super easy berries. The canes just hang over a ledge. They looked great, we got another 8 cups of berries in about 1/4 of the time.  Lon came up to where I was picking and said he was really sorry.  For what young one? He went over to the car to get a little snack, and as he was getting out, he accidentally locked the door behind him.  So we were locked out of the our car.  We walked back into the store and told them our car was out back till we could walk back and with the spare key (yea! Spare key!). The super nice lady who told us about the blackberries (Terri) offered to give us a ride home. How nice was that! I took her up on it, and Mark was already home and cleaning his car in the driveway.  He gave us a ride back to the car. It all worked out. And now we know an easy place to get berries where I won't get so chewed up by vines!