Saturday, June 13, 2009

A Bowl of Freshly Picked Strawberries

We have a bumper crop of Strawberries this year, probably 300+ ripening on the vine, and more flowers yet to become strawberries. Yesterday, the first "big" harvest happened. The boys and I went out and picked probably around 40 large ripe strawberries off the vine! I had to memorialize it with a picture because I knew that they would be gone in a matter of minutes.

Here they are in all their freshly washed glory:


They were consumed with great relish, within 5 minutes.

A neighbor boy exclaimed, in between bites: " You have food growing in your backyard??!!!" and later, "These are the yummiest strawberries I have ever tasted!"

1 comment:

Aimee said...

Our strawberries are getting ripe, too! The boys had a lot of fun picking them yesterday afternoon (Nathan was especially enthusiastic). Yum!