Blueberry Picking

The usuals included Jodie, Emma, Isabelle, Julie, Massimo, and Luca and newcomers to our bunch were Carrie and her son, Anthony, as well as Jane and her boys, Alex and Eli. Lisa, not pictured, joined us late, after she dropped off Isaac at school so she could pick in peace! Love it!


Sophia already looks pained here, Alex may have a long road ahead of him! ;) She and Alex have quite a relationship going. We are friends with their family from church and they usually sit very near us. We have found Alex and Sophia smooching away over the pew during the middle of service! LOL!

Emma and Sophia get right down to it!

Leo picked more green ones than blue ones, but he was all into it!

here he gets serious with the bucket!

look, Mom, I found one!

Sophia and Isabelle gave up on picking and just skipped through the bushes instead.

Somebody else got tired of picking too

Time for the train ride! Why walk through the fields when you can be pulled by a tractor!

Even though I got some cute pics, this was certainly our worst year for blueberry picking to date. There were no berries. Literally. The patch we pick has many different patches that they open and close each day according to ripeness, etc. They sent us to the furthest possible patch and there were no ripe berries. I'm sure there were some at 7 in the morning b/c we sure did some die hards walking past us with buckets and buckets, but by the time we got there everything was green. Leo managed to find quite a few ripe ones on the ground. I got probably 50 berries or so on my own, Sophia probably got between 20-30 but managed to eat all of them before we even left the picking aisle. Pathetic. I figured it was fine and I'd just go ahead and purchase some of the "we-pick" berries (as opposed to the "u-pick" variety you get yourself) but they were completely out of those as well. Jodie happily dumped her bag into mine and I ended up with about a cup and half. MUCH less than the 2 cups I needed to make the cookies I desired or the 4 cups I wanted to try making a pie this year. Boooo! It was really too bad, but at least the kids had fun. I suppose I can buy store bought berries to make my pie, I mean they are in season, but there's just something about making a pie from berries you picked yourself. And this would have been my inaugural pie so should I slum it with grocery store berries, I think not.