Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ~Dr. Seuss
It’s blackberry season out here on the farm. I’ve been over in the field fighting the briars, the weeds, and the bugs for some wild blackberries. Made a pie and some blackberry jam.
Now I’m picking the tame thornless blackberries we have out by the garden. They’ve gotten a little overgrown, so it’s still a challenge to get them picked as the best ones are always just out of reach. Well, they think they are, but I stretch and shove into the vines and manage to grab that elusive berry. Of course, sometimes after I do that, I drop the berry. LOL. That can be how it is and a lucky thing for a rabbit or chipmunk. But I didn’t drop all of them and I’ve picked plenty to save some in the freezer for pies and to make more jam.
But the best thing about blackberry season is going wild blackberry picking with my grandkids. They are troupers fighting those berry vines. We do hear a few ouches now and again. It’s an adventure for them to look for the biggest and best berries although if they are hard to reach they will yell for their dad to “get those.”
The girls started picking when they were little and while their stomachs probably ended up with more in it than their buckets, they had fun. Plus, they found out that if you want something, sometimes you have to work for it. Best, they had the reward of seeing how many they got at the end by combining all their buckets of berries.
Caption Game
So, seeing as how it is blackberry season and it’s time for a new game here on my blog to give away a book or two, I picked a blackberry picture for our the first photo in our caption game.
Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll share a new picture each time I put up a new post, nearly always on Sundays and Wednesdays although sometimes Wednesday slides into Thursday when I forget what day it is.
You can suggest your best idea for a caption for the picture. I’ll try to find photos that can get you thinking of different possibilities. Each time you suggest a caption on a new photo, you’ll get an entry into a giveaway chance to win one of my books (winner’s choice) and a grab bag book to go with it. I’ll pick three winners at the end of the game. I’ll post the last of five pictures on July 31st and the deadline to enter is August 2, 2022 at midnight EST. (Can you believe August is almost here?) So, if you suggest a caption for each new photo, you can have five entries. You do have to be at least 18 years old or older to play, but that’s about the only rule. I’ll choose the winners by random drawing and will contact them by email on August 3rd.
Winning something can be fun, but playing a game and exercising our imaginations is fun too. However, if you struggle to come up with a caption, you can still enter just by commenting on the post. But I know you’ll all think of some great things to suggest.
So what caption would you suggest for this sweetheart and her bucket of berries?
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These are better than Halloween candy any day!
Trick or Treat!
“Pure Sweetness — two precious gifts from our Heavenly Father!”
“Look how many berries we have. Is it enough for a pie and some jam?”
the sweeter the juice
I picked these all by my self !
“Sweet tasting memories with my Grandma!”
What color do you think my tongue is? Purple!
My bucket is full, but I think a Crow followed me home and is knocking on the door! 🙂
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For sure, Sienna would have been ready to share those berries with her crow friends, Hope, but your caption made me smile. Not so sure my granddaughter would agree. She’s not a bird fan. Not sure where that came from. Her mother says because a goose chased her when she was a little thing.
“I’m dreaming of Grandma’s delicious blackberry pie!”
I came, I saw, I conquered!❤️
“Look at all these blackberries,Grandma! Can we make a blackberry pie together,please?” Psalm 34:8💜😊
Would you like some?
Look, dad & mom I didn’t eat any!
I remember going blackberry picking with my mother and my aunts. Especially the time they came running out of the patch chased by wasps whose nest they’d disturbed! That didn’t stop their yearly quest for the berries, though. My caption for this photo is “Please, Grandma will you bake us a pie?”
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That made a funny memory for them each year when they went berry picking, I’m guessing, Lee. I’ve never been chased out by wasps. I’ve been surprised by June bugs and picked carefully around spiders and found a snake or two in the vines though. Berry picking can be an adventure.
My granddaughter loves to cook. So, she’d probably want to make the pie with me.
Grandma, may we do this again? Please? It was really fun!!
Would you like one?
1st prize in the berry picking contest
Can we bake a pie for Grandpa?
“This looks like enough for a berry good pie or three”