This year seems to be an excellent year for the blackberries and I have been as busy as ever making batch after batch of jam for future gifts for friends and family. The wild patch outside our backyard has produced enough for over three batches already!
Recently my family and I took a little hike around where we live and harvested a bucketful of everyone’s favorite summer treat. We stopped for a bit by the river’s edge to skip rocks and take in the beautiful scenery. In the below picture the plant in the front of the photo is a huge bramble of Himalayan Blackberry.
The path we were on was flanked on both sides by this invasive beast.
No one enjoys the wild berry picking as much as my daughter! We have dubbed her our little bear cub as she will stand there and eat and eat those yummy berries. Somehow she knows to pick the perfectly ripe ones too!
I went a little crazy snapping picture after picture of the berries as they just seemed so photogenic! This next photo looks staged but I promise it was not. My husband called me over and pointed out how this berry was resting so perfectly right in the middle of a Queen Anne’s Lace flower.
As we started to head home I quickly snapped this candid shot of my two boys walking way ahead of us. Candid shots are always my favorite and I think this photo shows why.
After returning home, I was able to take a picture of our bucket of berries before it was turned into yet another dessert.
For more information on this very invasive, if not yummy, blackberry you can a pay visit the following helpful links.
- Oregon Department of Agriculture- information on this noxious weed
- pdf file with some really good information from OSU
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