Today was my extra day of work, but it went pretty well. I
didn’t waste any time in the evening, either – right after supper I went out
and picked more blueberries!
This time I went behind the house again – there was a big
patch just beyond the edge of the yard, and then I worked my way back through a
band of trees to another sandy area at the edge of the Sand Point Marsh. I
worked around the edges – not much grows in the sand out in the open, just
under the trees. There were a few good patches, and a few with some berries
that weren’t ripe yet – and a few patches of taller bushes that had very green
berries on them! I’m not sure if those were blueberries but they looked about
the same, so we’ll see. (I checked the Wild Berries and Fruits guide at the
visitor center and there are several things I may have been picking out here –
a couple of varieties of blueberries, black huckleberries, and even something
called bilberries – but they’re all pretty much interchangeable as far as
eating them goes!)
It was really neat being alone back there. I could hear the
strange hooting call of the sandhill cranes, even though I didn’t see them. (It
seriously sounds like something out of the Jurassic Park movies. I even saw the
tracks… I have dinosaurs in my backyard!)
And then I saw a deer! I didn’t scare it out, I just looked
over and realized there was a deer looking back at me, a little ways off. We
were both a bit surprised – and then it left fairly quickly.
At this point I decided to stop picking, because I was
having a hard time seeing the blue color of the berries – it was getting to be
dusk. I had been out there for over an hour! I started working my way back,
trying to spot where I had come through the trees. I didn’t quite take the same
path back, but I came out in sight of the house so it worked out all right. It
was a lovely evening, out there in between the trees and under the sky… and I
got almost three cups of blueberries! About a quart, with what was left over
from the other night!
This is about the actual size. |
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