Berry Cute & Berry Delicious

The Oregon Berry season is to DIE FOR!! That is one of the highlights of the year for me. If I had to move away from Oregon I would have to vacation each year back here in July just so I could have the Berries.


The Berries are in full ripeness right now at Great Grandpa’s garden. (Leo is my father in law and is a wonderful gardener) For 3 years now I have taken K,K&J to pick berries in his garden. It is old hat to Kentucky now, but it is the first time for Joy. She learned that the RED Berries were what to look for. Even though they were picking Blueberries, Marionberries & Raspberries. Too many colors to remember for Joy.


Stuffing handfuls of raspberries into her mouth was the modus operadi for Joy. Once in a while she got the Marionberries mixed up with the raspberries. Marions should be picked BLACK not RED. She quickly spit those out. She found a green tomato which I quickly told her to put down.


Kentucky found the Cherry tree to be loaded and he could reach the lower branches so he was handing Joy cherries, which she quickly spit out. They were ripe, but they are Pie Cherries so not so sweet.

Korban was all into the hunt and eating every one of the berries in his container. He took none home to mommy.




Then they found the swings. Those swings have been there since my kids were playing in Grandpa’s backyard. Kentucky asked if they were tied on with strong knots. Yes Kentucky, they won’t break.







Joy enjoyed conversations with St. Francis. They could see eye to eye. St. Francis had conversations with the cat as well.


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And the best part is that we found a FROG!!! A little green one. I put it inside a clear cup and we watched it. We took it home to show mommy then I took it to my house and let it out in my shade garden. We will see if he sticks around.
(Additional news: Korban and I found the frog on the side of Grandpa's garden shed. Today Grandpa informed us that he found a mother Skunk and 5 kittens on that side of the shed. It is total luck that Korban and I didn't find those skunks while chasing the frog)


My best giggle was watching Joy go down the line of raspberries saying
“lookin. . .lookin. . .lookin. . Dares anodder one!” And of course “Raspberry” is “wapberrwy” in her 2 year old language.

Now. . . .onto my bowl of Berries and Cream. . . .
AWWWW. . . . . SUMMER!!