Bye-Bye Blueberries!
Seems like spring is not only a time for saying hello — to crocuses and other bulb plants emerging from winter-chilled soil, and soon, to asparagus, culinary herbs, snap peas, and spinach, among the first of the later spring crops — but also a time for saying good-bye.
Specifically, last night I said good-bye to the final half cup of blueberries in my freezer, all that remained of last summer’s abundant crop. Along with a couple of handfuls of frozen raspberries, those lovely purple-blue berries went into a casserole I made for last night’s supper. I thought of a winter’s worth of muffins, pancakes, and sour cream coffeecakes, all polka-dotted with succulent berries whose trip from bush to baking pan could be measured in mere feet rather than mileage. July, blueberry season here in the Northeast, suddenly seemed a long way off.
But today, as we were braving early-April bluster to take down a hoary old apple tree nearly thirty years old and hollow in more than one limb, I saw something that gave me good reason to smile. There, on the reddish green striplings of the blueberry bushes, were tiny buds, waiting patiently to greet the sun.
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