We needed to vacate our house for a few hours yesterday afternoon because of the open house so we decided to do something different and head a little to the west to do some raspberry picking. Raspberries have been, by far, Julia’s favorite fruit this summer. She has been known to eat entire pints in the relatively short time it takes to go through our local farmer’s market. So she was excited about going berry picking. It was a super hot day and the raspberries were near the end of the crop but we managed to pick two pints (three if you count all the ones Julia ate… okay, I ate some too!). Julia was really good at spotting them hiding under leaves and inside the bushes and now has had good practice for the real picking that will happen when we visit Grandpa Rick and Grandma Lesley’s raspberry patch in a couple of weeks!
We also picked peaches for the first time. It’s very early in the peach season so there was only one variety that was ripe – Sentry peaches. They are pretty good, although a little too sweet for me as I like my peaches/nectarines to have a little sour and a little sweet. I think they’ll be good for baking though. And we did learn how to identify a ripe peach. It is by the color – they should be dark red on at least one half.
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