Open Thread – Berries
It’s beginning to look a lot like… Thanksgiving! A gorgeous, about-ready-to-pop-with-tangy-juiciness cranberry!
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It’s beginning to look a lot like… Thanksgiving! A gorgeous, about-ready-to-pop-with-tangy-juiciness cranberry!
Just looking at that beauty my mouth started puckering thinking about eating a cranberry staight off the plant. I always though they grew in bogs – from the Ocean Spray commercials. I guess that’s not true?
Is that cranberry shown larger than actual size and shouldn’t there be a disclaimer attached if so?
Picky, picky, Mikey! But I agree it looks more like an apple! OK with me,though. To me AKM’s photos are all bigger than life!
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Take a look at the leaves associated with the larger red berry. Looks like red bearberry, Arctostaphylos rubra, leaves have a “wrinkled appearance”. Low bush cranberries or lingonberries have a smooth, shiny dark green leaf above and pale with brown spots under leaves; spots lacking in bear berry leaves. These 2 berries are frequently found together. Both are edible and have herbal medicinal purposes also.
If you compare the two berry’s leaves together, the differences are obvious. Very nice photo and yes, it makes me think it’s cranberry picking time.
Good to know! I stand corrected. 🙂
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benlomond2 and Mrs ben due here in less than 6 hours.
Sky is almost clear and due to hold for their Juneau visit.
Temp is forecast to hit 65 which is a heat wave here for September.
Am thinking we need mudpups to visit every September since they seem to bring the sun with them
🙂
Am hoping this day will be as fun for them as it will be for us
it will be. of that i have no doubt. please give Ben and Miz Ben a hug from me. take plenty pics to share with us pups on the forum.
Say “HI” to benlomond from tigerwine!
I can’t wait to hear all about it.
They’re here!
Heading out to meet them 🙂
Rats! They were supposed to bring me along to carry their luggage! 🙁
What a beautiful color those cranberries are. One nice thing about our store closing; I don’t have to look at the boxes full of holiday crap that the other stores are getting into their backstock already. I’m taking the day off sick today. I woke up with an unhappy tummy this morning 🙁 there is something going around at work. Rest and mint tea for me today.
……and here’s some virtual chicken soup! Take care and get to feeling better, that’s an order! XXOO
seconding the order and adding another bowl of chicken soup 🙂
relax sweet Cricket and take care of you.do like Tigerwine says and get some chicken soup inside that tummy.
And a fuzzy teddy bear to cuddle with while you rest! 🙂
I have a fuzzy kitty cat, is that ok?
Even better…they purr!
What an absolutely beautiful picture! Coming from New England (NH) I have a special fondness for cranberries. I have gotten so I substitute the dried version for raisins in my recipes. (But not in Rice Pudding!) I make a broccoli salad and put them in it – makes a stunning Christmas salad with the bright green of the broccoli and the red of the cranberries.
It’s fall, and with fall comes the slaughter of local pigs, the picking of apples, and of course, the crushing of grapes. To that, I’d add sweet potatoes. Give me pork, apples and sweet potatoes and I know fall has finally arrived – after a wickedly hot summer. Happy Fall, Y’all!
Thank you for the photo of cranberries. The lush richness of that berry is uplifting as the long, hot summer has taken its toll on our flowers.
I, too, regret the retail trend to rush holidays, to put merchandise in front of us months before (Christmas displays starting going up here in early August). However, doing so seems to drain the specialness from us. At least this beautiful berry reminds us that we can choose what we wish to focus upon and be grateful for so I will turn away my gaze with the glitz and false glitter of store displays and towards Nature. She always lets everything unfold in its own time, and for that I am thankful.
Thanksgiving!!!!! Nooooooooooooooooo!
We haven’t even had Halloween, yet. And then there’s Veteran’s Day.
AND I’m first, but only because I’m still up at a ridiculous hour.
And you are buying beer for everybody . . . . it’s the lot of the first to comment.
has thouest ever collected saideth swill?
It’ll have to be root beer. 🙂