berry tasty picking

April & May 2011- The annual strawberry and blackberry picking excursions to Marburger Orchard were delicious!

STRAWBERRIES- April

This year's picking was short and sweet.  Brazos had about all he could stand of supervising from his stroller after about 20 minutes.  The berries were very small this year due to some climatic force in February...oh yeah, it was the arctic blast that I'd prefer to never experience again!



pecos helped himself to a few strawberry samples



brazos loves the box I've used and saved for the past 4 years, but in his excitement he almost made it unusable!





me and my little Aggies ready to pick strawberries





MiMi was our assistant picker





brazos supervised the strawberry picking





pickin'



our harvest

 

Brazos enjoyed a sweet strawberry snack; much better than Cheerios or Goldfish!



BLACKBERRIES- May

We went as soon as we received notice that berries would be ready...and coincidentally it was the ONLY day that Pecos was out of school and we didn't have another activity to attend. 

 

lots of red and green berries on the vines, mixed in with a few ripe ones

supervising the blackberry picking



Pecos was in charge of the bamboo sticks that were intended to hold thorny vines to the side so Oma could get to the ripe berries.  No surprise that he preferred to tap them on every available surface and person in range.



sweet berry!  this one didn't even make it to the box as it had to be sampled immediately

berry sweet

June 2, 2009- We made a return trip to the same place we pick strawberries- Marburger Orchard- to try our hand at picking blackberries, which Pecos tends to call blueberries. So we put on clothes that could stand a few blackberry stains and headed over to pick. It only took one ant bite and 3 stickers for Pecos to call it quits on the picking. So Oma and I were left to do the picking while Pecos gorged himself on the berries. He was eating them almost as fast as we were picking. I banished him from my box but Oma let him sneak a few more....so I ended up with 5 pounds and Oma only ended up with about 4. I'm sure Pecos didn't eat an entire pound out of Oma's box but she was sidetracked from picking by all of Pecos' antics in the orchard. We had a great time and the weather was nice. We've been eating berries now for 3 days and have had enough....I'll freeze what's left and make cobbler with them. Or maybe I'll freeze them and let my mom make cobbler with them next time she visits!!

This one looks good.

Are you watching?

Look, I picked one!