> > Blueberries are my fav-- blueberries on anything. Lezlie
> >
> =smile=
>
> What I *LONG* for are the blackberries of home -- there was this hillside
> about a block from the house, steady supply of water from the leaky don't
> know how many decades old pipe that took the dregs of Fall River across
> the Pit River valley to water the Knoch (pronounced Nox) fields. South
> east exposure.
>
> Those were the ONERIEST brambles ever (positively carniverous).
> You dressed for rattlesnake when you went picking -- leather gloves, long
> pants, long sleeves, boots....
> But I have NEVER had berries so huge and so sweet.

I feel that way about the strawberries we picked in Australia... big, dark
red and the image of sweet juicy ripeness perfected. We spent days int eh
fields picking them... Kevin and I eating as many as we picked until we
thought we'd burst, but they were wonderful.

I haven't had a proper strawberry since 

the stuff in the stores now may *look* like strawberries, but they're hard,
sour, and no matter how red they are on the outside, the inside is but the
palest imitation of strawberry flesh... pinkish-white abomination. :/
(though I keep on buying them in hope...)

>
> *sigh*
>
> ALMOST worth going back for.
>
> Maybe some day.
>
> wistful, tygress

I'll take the strawberries and not tell dad you have the blackberries 

Oh... and Patrick Roy is retiring  Knew it had to come, but gosh... he
was such a pleasure to watch



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