We had quite a few chances in August to pick blackberries..
First our friends invited us to come out to their farm for dinner and berry picking
We gathered quite a lot of berries and then they sent us home with even more!
Mr. B shows the boys around their land
Mmmm! So wonderful! We had such a lovely evening of fellowship. Mrs. B sent us home with farm fresh chicken and duck eggs along with the big bucket of berries! What a fun time!
A few days later, Grace and Grant decided that they would pick enough blackberries for a pie!
We had lots growing around the property here so they didn't have to go far to find tons and tons!! :-)
They took their pickings into the house where Laura and Grace helped prepare the 'pie' (gf cobbler)
Mmmm was that a wonderful dessert! Thank you Grace and Grant!
The next day, daddy decided that God had provided so many berries in the woods around us that it would be a shame to not pick and freeze some for the fall and winter.. so we all headed up the back dirt roads behind our place, near the lake.. it was so quiet and peaceful back there!
Grady spots an osprey family and points it out to us! We watched for a good half hour as the baby sat at the top of the tree, 100 feet up (and weighing-in more than mama!) as the daddy osprey and mama took turns feeding baby. Whoever was not feeding the little one would swoop down and try to scare us away. It was an amazing sight! Such a blessing to experience such wildlife right in our own backyard.
Mama osprey trying to scare us off
The girls, standing at the edge of a 150 ft precipice above the lake
Back to the road to pick more blackberries!
evidence that Laura had already helped herself to the spoils of the day! :-)
Time to head home after lots of picking!
A very sweet ending to a wonderful family-memory day!
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