Berries: A Pilgrimage.

In an effort to make up for lost time, I went berry picking on Saturday with two of my favorite people at Sauvie Island Farms. I'm going to go ahead and call it an "annual visit" since I've done it twice now. It's a pilgrimage. Technically.

Last year I went a couple weeks earlier, and although the pickin' was a good time, it was work finding the ripe fruit. This year I think we went on the best weekend possible - the early blues were plentiful, and although we were probably a week ahead of optimal marionberry harvesting, we hit the raspberries at their prime. Those little suckers were plump and juicy, just begging to be plucked from their stems. I happily obliged them. Between the three of us, we went home with 22 pounds of fruit, for something like $30. Amazing. Stay tuned for a report on the delicious pie I made from our bounty. One gigantic, 25 pound pie. Just kidding. But not by much.