Ode to blackberrying
Tags: photos, Loch Lomond, blackberrying
Date: 12 September 2009 19:34:59
So we picked blackberries today at Loch Lomond and had such fun, there's nothing quite like it, you start off wondering if you'll ever pick enough to fill your container* and then you see a bunch of really fat juicy ones and you can't stop yourself from saying "You beAUty!" and then you get one that's slightly too ripe that splats all over your hand and then you realise your arms are shredded but you don't care and then you see a big bunch just out of reach and you put everything down so you can concentrate on stretching just enough to reach it and then you get a whole heap of them in one hand and then you get into a rhythm of using both hands to work the particular bramble and then you think that maybe wearing a white Tshirt wasn't the most sensible thing for blackberrying and then you realise that your husband who had agreed to pick blackberries to humour you but who would rather have been walking a bit faster has *got it* and has that same look on his face that you do when you see a good bunch and then he asks why I'm not panicking out here and I ask him what he means and he says with all these spiders and I say what spiders I've seen webs but no spiders and we laugh and I think phew I'm glad the spiders are just coming out for him not me and then you realise that you have enough blackberries for a crumble after all but there's still loads more to pick and when we get back to the picnic area where the car's parked there's that bush with the really big ones that we saw but didn't want to pick in front of other people but now we're so hooked and high on blackberrying that we don't care any more and you're really enjoying the thought of planning to make blackberry crumble even though you don't normally like cooking puddings that much and you're out with the best guy in the world and remembering the first time he came to Scotland to stay and we did this same walk and saw the blackberries and thought we should have brought something to put them in but let's just come back some time and pick blackberries and here we are and the sun is shining and the water is lapping against the shore and how brilliant is this.
What a great day. Who needs a Wii?!
Here's some photos:
* the Tupperware of blessed wib-memory