Berry picking landscape!
One thing I love about fall (besides all the other things I love about fall) has to be the berries! As I go for walks with my son I almost obsessively stop (much to his dismay) to check on the berries, blueberries, cranberries and lingonberries, and to glean a handful here, and a handful there to check their ripeness. I invariably stop at all good rosehip patches to test my skill at eating these seed laden and delicate berries. I swear the trick is to use your mouth instead of trying to pinch out the seeds and eat the remaining berry, which is fine if your just nibbling away your afternoon, but if your making jelly or collecting them for tea, you may need to hone your berry picking skills a little further.
The variety of colors always brings to mind the waning days of summer and the crisp fall days ahead. Perhaps it is because our leaves don’t stay on the trees long enough to become orange and red, that I look to the little berries and the fleshy rosehips for my omens of fall. The rich earthy smell of ripe cranberries, always reminds me that winter is on it’s way, so I better get picking!