The blackberry blossoms are prolific this year & looking especially lush – their own plumpness full of fruitful promise.
Are we going to get a bumper crop of berries, or will the damp just turn them into grey & mouldy sludge on the bramble?
In either case they will – especially those so visible from & easily accessible at the roadside - be gathered by those much nimbler on their feet, bowls & Tupperware boxes at the ready for whenever the moment is ripe.
Some of the knowledge of the past – about what, of natures bounty, provides food for free for humans – has been lost, but everybody still knows about blackberries.
Mouths are already salivating at the thought of all those blackberry & apple pies or crumbles to come.
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