Clearwater Blackberries
Yes, an annual tradition has become reunited with a guy that longs for the journey that was missed!
Three day weekend and how did I spend it? Picking berries and generally just enjoying myself on the mighty Clearwater. A combination of my favorite rivers...the Selway and the Lochsa...the Clearwater carries the same great, unique smell, feel, and flavor of my childhood. The light looks different down there, the river shines in it's own. Photographs are simple. The opportunities are endless, the bounty abundant. I love it down there.
So this long weekend was planned as a blackberry weekend. We left early Saturday morning and picked berries...camped..relaxed throughout the morning...and picked again Sunday morning. Then made the long trip home so we could have a day tying loose ends together.
Overall, I think we picked about 32 lbs of blackberries! I'm using 4 lbs to make some more wine, the rest are being frozen as we speak. Thinking about investing in some canning gear to make some jam! Sarah seems to be content adding the berries to pancakes. We made a little adventure out of breakfast Sunday morning by having very thin pancakes. Solution? Say they were crepes and just roll berries in them! Thick, crisp, bacon and crepes by the fire with fresh pressed coffee? How much better does it get?
I didn't want to leave.
My Two Shadows camp is an ideal place to be. It's always open during the winter months and is generally passed by people heading up river. So that was open for us to use, as well as my "heritage" blackberry patch my Mom used to take us kids to. Very fun to live old memories and new beginnings. I love that the one I'm with can find excitement in driving four hours, dressing in long sleeves and heavy trousers, in the sun, just to pick berries. This weekend was perfect.
Unfortunately, I have no blackberry photos! What gives? But I did take off on Saturday night and just mosied around with the dog taking photos. These are them.
Enjoying the shadows
Ferns
Closer ferns...inverted by the way
Just interesting
All the rocks point in the same direction
TINY frog. It's probably about 1/4 inch lengthwise....there were hundreds of them!
The clearwater showing it's resiliency
Three day weekend and how did I spend it? Picking berries and generally just enjoying myself on the mighty Clearwater. A combination of my favorite rivers...the Selway and the Lochsa...the Clearwater carries the same great, unique smell, feel, and flavor of my childhood. The light looks different down there, the river shines in it's own. Photographs are simple. The opportunities are endless, the bounty abundant. I love it down there.
So this long weekend was planned as a blackberry weekend. We left early Saturday morning and picked berries...camped..relaxed throughout the morning...and picked again Sunday morning. Then made the long trip home so we could have a day tying loose ends together.
Overall, I think we picked about 32 lbs of blackberries! I'm using 4 lbs to make some more wine, the rest are being frozen as we speak. Thinking about investing in some canning gear to make some jam! Sarah seems to be content adding the berries to pancakes. We made a little adventure out of breakfast Sunday morning by having very thin pancakes. Solution? Say they were crepes and just roll berries in them! Thick, crisp, bacon and crepes by the fire with fresh pressed coffee? How much better does it get?
I didn't want to leave.
My Two Shadows camp is an ideal place to be. It's always open during the winter months and is generally passed by people heading up river. So that was open for us to use, as well as my "heritage" blackberry patch my Mom used to take us kids to. Very fun to live old memories and new beginnings. I love that the one I'm with can find excitement in driving four hours, dressing in long sleeves and heavy trousers, in the sun, just to pick berries. This weekend was perfect.
Unfortunately, I have no blackberry photos! What gives? But I did take off on Saturday night and just mosied around with the dog taking photos. These are them.
Enjoying the shadows
Ferns
Closer ferns...inverted by the way
Just interesting
All the rocks point in the same direction
TINY frog. It's probably about 1/4 inch lengthwise....there were hundreds of them!
The clearwater showing it's resiliency
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