Berry-mania

Since we arrived in New York last week we have been feasting on berries. Melissa was really thoughtful and, as promised, sent over a blueberry pie for us. She had picked 17 pounds of berries over the weekend of the 4th and had some baking to do.


On Sunday she picked me up, nice and early, and we went back to the 'U-Pick' blueberry orchard (or is it a patch?). I must have eaten at least a pound of berries, and what I didn't eat I brought home (my bag weighed a little over four pounds). Melissa, with her own freezer and a mother with whom to split the pickings, was more ambitious and brought home another 19 pound bag! Hanging out in that orchard was a long-awaited fantasy of mine: not only do I LOVE blueberries in all its forms, but they were ripe, plentiful, and super easy to pick (no bending over a vine or shifting through thorns!).