4th of July Berry Booty...

As in treasure that a pirate might find. What did you think I meant? : )

Unfortunately, we have been having a heat wave here and the berry plants are starting to wilt. This means though we have bountiful berries, some of which haven't even opened yet, we may not get the full harvest unless we get some rain soon.

As I was driving today I noticed that a lot of the trees are starting to get brown leaves, as if it were autumn already. You would think that it was early fall by looking at some of the trees, and yet it is unbearably hot.

Berry-pickin

Today I went berry picking in the backyard. We have wild raspberries growing all over the place. When we first moved, I was suspicious of eating wild foods. But then I finally tried one and ummm! They were good! And I didn't die. So we eat them every year. Now because of all the rain we have a bumper crop of them: