Blackberries

One great thing we discovered this summer are all the wild blackberry bushes. They grow everywhere around here in August and September. This year I realized that we have a ton of bushes right behind our house. For the last three weeks I've gone out several times to pick berries and make all sorts of different creations, cobbler, jam, pie, coffee cake..... very yummy. Alyssa loves picking berries. She gets to pick the red or green berries so she doesn't squish purple juice all over everything. She only picks two berries, one for each hand :) The only problem is that blackberry bushes are full of thorns and Alyssa gets scratched up every time we go, but she still likes it.