A Road Less Travelled

I went outside in the back today and picked berries! We have a few mulberry bushes that are so huge that the term bush is a grievous misnomer. The bushes resemble trees more than they do bushes. I’m surprised that the mulberry trees still produce berries at all because I had always thought that a plant can either grow big or grow fruit, but not both. Plants don’t multi-task very well. But the trees have been producing berries all season and show no sign of stopping.

The children have been enjoying going outside and eating food right of the tree that made it, but I haven’t really had the burning desire to go pick berries. But today I happened to be outside and I noticed there were a bunch of berries they were growing mostly at my eye level and above. I thought “I bet the kids can’t reach those.” And then I thought “I can reach most of those.” And then I thought “Hey, maybe I could pick those!” So I got a bowl and picked berries right in our backyard. I went from having no interest in picking berries to wishing we had a ladder so I could reach even more berries.

I can see why people get such a buzz from gardening. We live in the middle of the city with a concrete slab covering half of our backyard and I was able to find food out there. Not much food, but I saw a lot of berries that should be ripe in a day or two. And when they’re ripe I’m gonna go pick them.