Berries!

some early morning discovery 

WITH my camera 

means some berry picking is JUST ahead!

umm can you say YUM?

berry bushes are losing blossoms

and look what we'll be picking before no time at all!

thinking I will need to 

can 

some 

jam

and pie fillings.. 

my grapes..

looking good so far..

thinking about 

a future vineyard?

perspective

I just have to pinch myself with all the pretty things I find around here

as we clear away the debris of years of forgotten...

away

and discover 

royal ferns

and beautiful hostas

and

and 

more roses

the last of the blue bells being drunk up by a friendly bee 

a blooming bursting green garden

rather than the tumble weed mess

all chores done..

lessons done 

time to enjoy BUBBLES! 

blowing ! 

so hard to get the wand in there JUST so

LOVE how Little Man works so carefully...

so diligently 

Buddy

is SO the expert..

don'tcha know? 

focus... 

so wonderful

brothers blowing bubbles..

on a fine spring day!

and me..

lost in my thoughts

in my garden... 

anyone know if these are currants...?

i hope so.. 

wonder what THIS will be! 

soon to be berries! 

berries here are plentiful..

we hope to learn to make jam,

and fruit pie filling!

but sometimes 

one needs to take a step back

and not just look at the details

but look at a bigger picture

and the view...

I am so thankful for perspective..

aren't you ?

we all need it now and again

different... equal.. but NOT the same

It is WINTER here on the Farm...

and while I am falling in LOVE with each season thus far here.. 

I am chilled..

and preparing for Christmas

but my thoughts wander to buggy days in the summer

when berries are RIPE

and 

ready for me to eat..

I LOVE BERRIES!

so..

I started looking at some of the fun photos I took of the house this past summer

when I noticed for the FIRST time

THIS berry

is NOT the same as THIS berry

there is a DISTINCT difference

though ..

they both tasted FABULOUS

and grow abundantly...

wow..

so exciting!

now.. to discern exactly WHAT each one is..

I think the first MAY be boysenberry

and the second.. black raspberry

thoughts?