While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. (Genesis 8:22)
It’s seedtime here again with a new one for you to guess. I’m making you work hard to maybe win a couple of books, but I hope you’re having fun too. This might be another not so easy one. Then again, you might guess it right off the bat. I look forward to reading your guesses.
I was right about the last picture not being easy. It might have been easy for me if I’d been on the other end of the mystery picture because I grew up with these little bushes all over our farm. My father did not like them at all. He thought they were pests and had been brought into the area, but when I looked them up online it sounded as if they were supposed to be right here in Kentucky and all over the eastern United States. We always called them buck berry bushes. Here’s a buck berry link to information about them. I was completely surprised to see that you can actually buy seeds to grow these bushes and the seeds were expensive. We were always trying to find ways to get rid of the bushes, not grow them.
Of course, my sister and I “harvested” the little berries to use
in our mud pie kitchen. Made for great “cherry” pies. And they were easy to pick. No thorns and low to the ground. The article said birds and animals eat them. I guess they do, but if so, they must not taste very good because buck berries seem to be the last to be eaten. Must not be exactly like chocolate to the wildlife. Or my dad would say there are just so many of the bushes and thus berries that I’m not noticing that the animals are eating a few of them.
Thanks, as always, for reading. If you want to know about my blog giveaway just go back a few posts to read about it or check out the details here.