Pickin’
posted in Alaska, Food, Garden, Mushrooms and Fungus |OmegaDad hauled the dotter and me out to pick various berries in the yard–he plans to make rose-hip and rhubarb jelly, and maybe tart it up with cranberries.
While we were out there, I came upon some pretty mushrooms and fungus:
The dotter and OmegaDad in the midst of foliage:
The takings - cranberries:
And rose hips:
Rose hips are chock-a-block full of pectin, but they’re not very tasty. Fairly bland, as a matter of fact. So hopefully the rhubarb and cranberries will make the end result more interesting.
As the majority noted, it was, indeed, Pippi in the dotter’s picture. (Lauri–No, I wasn’t trying to get very deep! ;-) Just wanted to see if people who didn’t know beforehand could recognize the subject of the picture.) I am torn at this point between the idea of sending the dotter off to take some “art lessons” so she can learn about perspective and shading and various techniques, and the fear that the same thing could kill her creativity. If someone were to squish that outpouring of creativity, I think I’d get…violent.
