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

strawberry fields forever

April 2, 2009- We went strawberry picking on the windiest day of the year. Wind gusts of at least 30 mph. But it was the only day of the week we could make it. And since most days the orchard closes early because there are so many pickers we thought we'd better go in case we didn't get another chance or run the risk of the orchard closing for the year because the berry plants quit producing. The berries were much smaller this year than last and Pecos was not quite as enthusiastic due to the wind but we still had a great time and left with a boxful of berries.

This looks like a good one.

Tastes as good as it looks!

After a short stint of picking, Pecos became the spotter. "Get that one, Oma!", "Follow me, Mama.", "Put it in my box!"

And once his box was full he was ready to leave.

So heavy!

Strawberry pie, anyone?