Oh, what a happy surprise to find this patch of blue berry... yes, BLUE BERRY blossoms! These may be blueberries or bilberries, I do not know which, but they will definitely produce blue berries. Unless a frost damages them or lack of rain dries them up or the black bears scour the patch. With last year's dismal blueberry crop, all blueberries fiends have high hopes for this summer, for hours of squatting and crawling through patches that are more blue than green, reaching for plump berries with seemingly permanently stained fingers, filling buckets blue to the brim to turn into fresh blueberry pie and smoothies, to be stockpiled in the freezer for that time when reminder of summer is needed, or to be like me with a handful to the mouth for each one to the bucket while singing "Best when fresh!" with a blue-tinged grin.
May 3rd seems a bit early to find blueberry blossoms. Maybe it's a record. Or maybe I just happened to find a microclimate. What do you think?!?
Read my Berry Crop post from last summer.
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