Happy Wednesday all! I hope you are all enjoying the week so far. As usual each month, I can't believe where the days have flown by. How are we already halfway through the year? It feels as though 2019 just started!
Well, I keep doing my best to take each day as it comes and enjoy taking moments to do what brings me pleasure when I can. Though it is getting quite hot out now as we are right in the thick of summer, it is still a blast when we get to do something that takes us outside for the better part of the day. Over the weekend and beginning of this week I was hovered over the computer a good bit, so it was particularly rewarding to get out to the farm again yesterday to pick more fruit! Yeah, yeah, I've shared about doing this before, but it will never get old to me. It's an excellent way to join in on 
Though it was just three weeks ago that we went to the farm previously, so much changes in that short period of time out in the fields! This time around the strawberries are long gone, but we finally got to head into the peach orchard. The bales of hay up front also represented the change in season with the fun artwork on the bed of the truck. No blueberries this time around, but before hitting peaches we first decided to head into the blackberries to grab some of those before it got too hot out in the sun. We grabbed an empty bucket each and started to walk on down.
Though they look like raspberries, those are just the blackberries starting to ripen up in the sun!
Looking lower you can see all the stages of development. Kind of fun to see all the different colors as the berries mature!
However, the bushes were just dripping with ripe, juicy blackberries! I think I picked my first gallon bucket in about 15 minutes. Though they were delicious back when we first picked some, these are really sweet and plump this time around. More rain has definitely helped the last few weeks. Since there were so many berries, I ran back up to get a third bucket while 
After filling up our blackberry buckets, we walked across to the peaches. There were definitely plenty of peaches on the trees, though they were a bit tougher to find nice ripe ones. It seemed that the ones that were perfect were already getting attacked by bugs (I can't blame the insects--fresh peaches are divine when ripe and juicy). I think we still got plenty of good ones, they'll just take a few days to soften up before we really dig in! It really is so nice spending time underneath the trees. Much cooler, and it was pretty quiet with not too many people picking when we were.
With our bags and buckets full, we walked back up to the store to pay. It's an hour drive back home, so we also made sure to use the facilities before leaving. Right outside the restrooms is a fun display of farm signs on the wall. They have lots of rocking chairs outside to sit and rest your picking muscles, too. 😉
I hope you enjoyed another walk through the fruit farm! We certainly did! Though now I'll be busy the rest of the week working on my haul before any of it goes bad. Good thing it will be quite tasty work...
