The first blue berries are ripening, and there are LOADS of them!! Not knowing how the weather will effect then in a couple weeks, I'd better get out there and do some gathering. Yum yum.
And we hope to get our salmon in the next 10 days too.
Tina
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :
]The first blue berries are ripening, and there are LOADS of them!! Not ]knowing how the weather will effect then in a couple weeks, I'd better get ]out there and do some gathering. Yum yum.
watch out for the bears!!!!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
I always carry when I pick berries, and even more important, I make noise or bring Stella the crazy dog.
I told Pete that she was always making noise and drawing attention to herself. "Like you", I told him. "So I suppose YOU'd rather have a wolf." he said. I thought for a moments, of what a wonderful companion Willow had been, and said, "Yes". She was such a quiet and sensitive great beast. I miss her.
Tina
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :
]I always carry when I pick berries, and even more important, I make noise or ]bring Stella the crazy dog.
good for you! wish i'd had you in one of my "gun debates" otherwhere!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
My favorite berry season has just come & gone back east. I adore black raspberries (not the same as blackberries, for those of you on the left coast) and they always come in in early July. I used to be certain that this was arranged just for my birthday.
My mom called me on my b-day and told me she'd bought 3 quarts. One for eating (splendid in a bowl of light cream and sugar, no cereal needed), and two for baking into muffins for me to bring home. I can't wait! LOL
Half the fun is picking them, of course....scaling up treacherous slopes and getting tangled in the briars, dodging bees, watching for snakes and making sure you don't get any that have bird droppings on 'em. And of course they taste twice as good when fresh and warm from the sun. mmmmmmmmm
-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs
This "berry time" topic reminded me of the most interesting thing I saw at Bead Renaissance in Portland last week. It's the work of Elizabeth Johnson, who has been doing glass sculpture of berries that are just incredible.
Her small website showing those fantastic raspberries and blackberries is
I've never been that big on glasswork trying to closely mimic other things, but I was blown away (both by the realism, as well as the technique) by these!
--Dave
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This reminds me of one of my favorite childrens books.. Jamberry. One berry, two berry, pick me a blueberry and so on... telling the story of a bear and a boy picking berries for jam. I can almost taste the warm berries. Diana
Ooooh I love her work!!!!! One of these days one of her pieces will be mine....
-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs
I should point out, too, that the picture on her website does not do them justice --- they are even more amazing in person. For example, on the blackberries, some of the little "sub-berries" are a slightly different color, just like on a real blackberry. The little "sub-berries" on the raspberries each have an indentation like real ones. And the raspberries are either etched or blasted so that they have a matte finish (like real raspberries) while the blackberries are left glossy (like real blackberries).
The blueberries are also pretty nifty, and she also does a strawberry, yep, with the little dot-seed-thingies all over it.
If you're at a show, be sure to look for them. I am told that she doesn't do shows herself, but is "repped" by another lampwork artist, Roxanne Taylor, whose business is called "Gecko Moon".
--Dave
Those are wonderful indeed!
Heather at Isobels Dreams also does some wonderful berries
Oh yum fresh blueberries and salmon. Nice.
I got to see Salmon making their upstream run when I was in Idaho. It was pretty cool to see them making there way up a drop.
Kathy K
grapes. I can't wait until they are ripe in a month or so. Yummy.<
I'll second that yummy! I loooooove concords!
It's funny, back east my bio-calendar was set by what fruits came in when. May was sour cherries, June was sweet cherries and strawberries, July was blackberries and early peaches and corn, August was sour apples, September was concords, and October was Winesap apples. Oh, and December was for imports...tangerines and pomegranates.
My calendar here is all messed up and nothing even has a pattern. At first I thought everything was two months sooner....but I was wrong. And it's more confusing with so many things being "local" from Mexico and California. Now it's all fruit, all the time. Only one thing seems to have stayed the same (which I just don't understand)....asparagus is in May-June...both back in PA AND here. Go figure.
-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs
Ay yi yi!
I don't know if they have fruit cups in the Hispanic shops there but they are a speciality here. All kinds of fruit, melons, pineapple, strawberries, apples, fresh coconut hunks and cucumbers mixed with lime juice and sprinkled with chilis and salt. Great. The best chili salt is by Lucas and if you find it, truck stops, Circle K's, liquor stores etc here have it by the cash register, the red shaker is the one to get. If you can't then salt and ground chapolte or cayenne are good. Everyone here serves fruit with chili salt. There are stores here for fruit cups just like you find ice cream shops else where. They also have ices, ice creams, and other cool off stuff. One thing else that seems strange is snowballs (crushed ice covered with syrups) topped with sweetened heavy creams or on top of ice cream.
You won't have a problem with the Lucas salt clumping there but on the coast it need rice added to the shaker to keep it dry.
Susan W
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