Berry Pickin

The berries are in full bloom, Salmon berries, that is. This time of year the island is covered by them. They are delicious and have a very unique taste, almost a combination of raspberry and blackberry. They also look somewhat like Salmon roe, hence the name. Our favorite picking place happens to be right off the back step of our little church. We noticed Sunday after the service that they were finally ripe enough to be picked. So a couple of days later we took about an hour and picked berries. Despite the girls best attempts at eating them before they hit the bucket (just kidding, they actually did very well not eating them until Scott said it was OK to have a few and they took that as a free for all on the berries) we were able to pick about 2-3gallons in that hour. We all had a blast crawling through the thick bushes and can't wait for another pretty day to get some more. Hopefully this year we will be able to get enough to get us through the winter. I'm still waiting for the blueberries to get ripe they should be ready any week now.

Working on filling our 5 gallon bucket.