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Blueberry afternoon
Posted 07-13-2008 at 07:01 AM by starwalker
I never did get to the garden yesterday. Instead I got waylaid by a wayside bush. Actually many of them...
When I stopped to see what grew in the area where K had seen a woman and her daughter picking something close to the ground I found blueberries! I knew blueberry season was coming, the wonderful wild kind and had asked at the strawberry farm where we picked earlier in the week if they knew where to find the wild ones and they said we would have to go closer to the coast. Not sure if she thought (noting my out-of-state plate) that we were looking to pick them that day or what...
But blueberry season seems to be here, and after several hours of "blueberry yoga" as a bent, stretched, squatted and for a while, sat perched on one of the hardest, sharpest bits of granite ever to protrude from the Maine roadside, I ended up with a quart of the wonderful tiny berries.
If this is not some Maine woods rite of passage, it SHOULD be... along with seeing a moose, counting the deer in your neighbor's yard and flushing a flock of wild turkeys as you drive home into the sunset.
No, I didn't get anything done on A's garden... but it will still be there today, after a breakfast of oatmeal garnished with fresh, wild blueberries.
"...the way life should be..."
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Robert Frost has a wonderful poem about picking Blueberries and it includes some rural humor about asking a native where the best place is to pick berries.
Robert Frost: BlueberriesPosted 07-13-2008 at 07:42 AM by elston
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Wonderful!!! You found your blueberries! I hope they are worth the wait and anticipation.Posted 07-13-2008 at 07:56 AM by Maine Writer
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yes, they were wonderful on the oatmeal this morning. I will likely freeze the remainder, loose, like I do the domestic ones and then bag them for future meals.Posted 07-13-2008 at 09:02 AM by starwalker
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Beautiful! Have you ever made a blueberry buckle ? My mom used to make one, I have no idea of the ingredients but I'm sure there's a recipe somewhere! Yummy!Posted 07-13-2008 at 03:12 PM by island mermaid
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Blueberry Buckle
I found a recipe on pickyourown.org that I am going to try! They have a regular version as well, but since K's blood sugar is NOT being stable at all, and I found this pre-tested Splenda version, I will do it instead.
Thanks for the suggestion! It looks wonderful!!Posted 07-13-2008 at 03:38 PM by starwalker
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and for those who don't know a buckle from a cobbler...
Old Fashioned fruit desserts definedPosted 07-13-2008 at 04:31 PM by starwalker
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The pictures made my mouth water! I never knew the difference between a buckle and a betty either. Nice links, thanks!Posted 07-13-2008 at 08:30 PM by island mermaid
