While on Bainbridge we saw a lot of orange and blackberries. Chinese lantern flowers are sprouting all over.
But not as all over as the blackberries. These were quite a distance from the pedestrian dock. Any branch within arm's reach was picked clean of berries. Katherine told me before I moved here that blackberry bushes were ubiquitous - that they grow anywhere they can find a spot of land. And boy was she right. The other day on my way to work I saw a few guys with buckets along side the road picking blackberries from the wild bushes that line the road. I imagined they were taking them home to make a pie that they were then taking to their Mom who lives in a retirement community and no longer has a kitchen of her own. What a couple of nice guys.
More orange flowers. No clue what kind these are, I just like them. There's such great variety here. You really should come visit.
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