More photos from my time in Co Derry earlier this month. The forecast when i looked before packing as for rain, more rain, and rain after that. As you’ll see that was not a wholly accurate prediction.
More photos from my time in Co Derry earlier this month. The forecast when i looked before packing as for rain, more rain, and rain after that. As you’ll see that was not a wholly accurate prediction.
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So beautiful. I am drawn to rose hips, but the raspberries brought a smile to my lips. Did you pick them?
I don’t think I identified the fruit in the last photo correctly. What are they?
Unripe blackberries.
Our blackberries are bigger – I wonder if they look small because of the lack of rain.
There are lots of different varieties of blackberries. It seemed the bigger ones (my favourites) ripened faster, so they were the ones I ate.
I picked the ripe ones. The hips were enormous, like shiny radishes.
I marveled at the size of the hips. Have you ever used them for tea? I haven’t but I know that people do.
No, I haven’t. When I was a child we used to own them up and chase each other with the contents we sued as itching powder.
The hips look like Rosa rugosa. We’re there any ripe blackberries?
Yes. I ate lots! https://isobelandcat.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/of-cooler-days-poetic-blackberries-and-sunshine-yellow-flowers/
The hips were from a Rose hedge at a house at the top of the last hill.
Were, not we’re
That pesky predictive/corrective text!
I enjoyed luscious blackberries near Brighton last weekend – really easy picking along a dead end lane, so no traffic but ripe blackberries galore.