a fruitful season

One of my favorite times of year is the beginning of summertime - when it's ripe for strawberry picking! I have really fond memories of heading to the strawberry patch in Oregon with my mom and siblings when I was really young to pick strawberries. We'd eat more than would make it into our buckets! I could live on strawberries...strawberries and bread. Yum. We picked buckets and buckets of strawberries this year. With our first batch I made some strawberry jam to give to others and strawberry shortcake to eat. Unfortunately we picked most of our strawberries the day before we left for our vacation...and I wasn't organized enough to get them washed and frozen before we left. So, unfortunately, lots of strawberries went to waste. A tragedy!

My little helper.

Picking and weighing the berries.