No blogging yesterday because it was a beautiful Midwestern summer day, so I spent hours hiking, then had tomatoes to tie up in the garden and other chores.
About two hours into the walk I encountered a patch of dozens and dozens of the plants above. I believe these are blackberries rather than black raspberries, but to the hiker the important part is that they are highly nutritious and exquisitely delicious. My personal ethos in this regard is to tell myself I'm walking in the animals' kitchen and have plenty of food in my own home, so I should just enjoy a handful (spitting out the little seeds as I walk to help propagate the plants) and leave the others (although in all honesty they will probably be harvested by subsequent dayhikers rather than the local critters).
