Are You A Berry Picking Champion?
Berry Sun Salutation
Are you the one who
dares to reach in
past leaf and thorn
feel for soft
flesh surrendering
the slightest tug
pulls the berry free
it’s the sweet one
this you will know
from years of bending,
testing and tasting
if this is so then
today you are chosen
to raise your
scratched and purpled
hand high to salute
the Summer Sun
Good-By!
Margo Roby’s Tuesday Tryouts suggested an Olympic theme I believe Berry Picking could be a new event but only if each participants decided if they had won by how much fun they had 🙂 Then everyone went and made berry cobbler 😀
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Oh…yes…that’s me…I would challenge most anyone…diving in…briars …hiding in the furthest corner…spotting that perfect sweet one…wondering all of the time where the next one is hiding…Sometimes right out in the open from me looking too hard into the tangled vines…And then the reward of washing…sugaring…making it into your favorite pie recipe…I’m Game!~mkg
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I want you on my berry pickin’ team for sure! 😉 Great writing,too1
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I love taking close up photos of blackberries!!!
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do you get up close and personal and pick them too?
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Hey, the end result of diving in and picking the berries is well worth it. Just think of the blackberry cobblers, or a bunch of them over a big bowl of ICE CREAM. Now I think I need some ice cream. Just wish I had some blackberries!!!!!! Great picture.
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It’s amazing how the subject of blackberries always gets back to ice cream don’t you think? 🙂
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Well, you know how it is . . . ice cream and blackberries, ice cream and peaches, ice cream and strawberries, and etc. lol
Neal
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Great post, Carol, and one that brings back childhood memories of blackberry picking with my family. Blackberries grow wild everywhere here; I remember hot days dressed in long sleeves and multiple buckets at my feet, filled with berries. I probably ate as many berries as I picked 🙂
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Such wonderful memories I thought that’s what might happen with this idea. The best part was the eating as you went, It make me thin of the children’s book “Blueberries for little Sal” I bet you know it.
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Love the photograph, Carolisle. I enjoyed the poem and your concept. Anything that might lead me to a cobbler!
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Yea Cobbler! I guess I need to ask for cobbler recipes or publish my own. glad you like my idea 🙂
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Cobbler is unbelievably easy!
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Oh Yes I won’t tell any one I use Bisqick, Oops too late.
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Hi Carolisle, I love your name! 🙂 And also love your poem. I’ve been picking blackberries a ripe handfull at a time and freezing them to get enough to make jam for our village fruit and veg show. I bet I could pick for England now! lol
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I just went out and the blackberries are still green. My friend and I got about 2 cups. One year I had 16 jars of jam. Wow Veronica sounds like you know where to go for blackberries. Folks from England probably would know my name. It really is my name Carol Carlisle so combine them to create a happy place 🙂 so glad to meet you. 🙂
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