blueberries are ripe
Yes, indeed they are! And we at Avocet summer headquarters (just uphill from the blueberries) are so excited about Will Layman's review in Pop Matters! Hope you will read it online here at POP MATTERS or HERE on our own website. Will is particularly psyched about Dave Flaherty's drumming. As are we!
It’s like Joni Mitchell made a record with A Tribe Called Quest, to our ear.
The other morning as I was drinking my coffee from my tin cup on the porch three deer appeared in the blueberries below: a mom and two fawns. I held my breath, hoping they would stay and I could observe them. But the blueberry patch proved less interesting than it had on their last visit as we'd done a pretty fair job picking the ripe berries the morning before. So off they went, skirting the edge of the bog. And even though they were very close I couldn't hear them move through the trees. I felt guiltry for having robbed them of breakfast. But I know they ate their share of berries as the humans near us seem unaware of the bountiful wild blueberries lurking in the scrub all around.
Unfortunately I also thought of all the ticks getting a lift on those fine deer haunches and hoped that when they swam the channel back that some of those freeloaders would drown. Banner year for Lyme disease. So keep any ticks you pull off yourself or your friends/family so you can get appropriate meds if necessary.
Enough about ticks!
Summer is good for songwriting. So are blueberries.
It’s like Joni Mitchell made a record with A Tribe Called Quest, to our ear.
The other morning as I was drinking my coffee from my tin cup on the porch three deer appeared in the blueberries below: a mom and two fawns. I held my breath, hoping they would stay and I could observe them. But the blueberry patch proved less interesting than it had on their last visit as we'd done a pretty fair job picking the ripe berries the morning before. So off they went, skirting the edge of the bog. And even though they were very close I couldn't hear them move through the trees. I felt guiltry for having robbed them of breakfast. But I know they ate their share of berries as the humans near us seem unaware of the bountiful wild blueberries lurking in the scrub all around.
Unfortunately I also thought of all the ticks getting a lift on those fine deer haunches and hoped that when they swam the channel back that some of those freeloaders would drown. Banner year for Lyme disease. So keep any ticks you pull off yourself or your friends/family so you can get appropriate meds if necessary.
Enough about ticks!
Summer is good for songwriting. So are blueberries.