Blueberries.....

 ....for Sal MaryAnn.  

Do you know this children's book...Blueberries For Sal by Robert McCloskey?  I probably read it hundreds of times to my kids.  

I thought of Sal while I picked...and ate...blueberries this afternoon at Winslow farm....just up the street.  They DO encourage you to sample while you pick.

There were hundreds of highbush plants....and most of them were just loaded with ripe berries....with many more to come. I will be going back.

I love the stages of color as they ripen.

And I absolutely love the meadow rue plant near the entrance to the picking fields....hundreds of tiny pink beads waiting to pop open.