solid copper

Dropping by a blueberry farm

Saturday, 11. July 2009, 07:00:21

I have a hard time uploading pictures to a blog post tonight. The same thing happened about a week ago also. It is really frustrating and annoying, although tonight I found a solution, which is to first upload the pictures to an alum and then hit the "blog it" button under each photo. Each hit starts a new post. I managed, however, to put more than one photo into this post by first copying and pasting the link generated from the "blog it" function into the post composing block and then changing the photo titles in the links to match those in the album.

Originally this post was titled "Joy". The photo difficulty has pretty much taken the joy away, the joy generated from the journey I undertook this evening, which I am now too tired to recapture.

The snowy mountain in the first picture is Mt. Baker across the border in the United States. On a sunny day it is visible from my city, though I need to be in an open spot to have it captured. The second photo features the owner of the berry farm, who is very proud and friendly. I had a nice chat with him and his wife and went home with a great berry deal.

Pretty womanVisiting Minnekhada Lake

Comments

derWandersmann # 11. July 2009, 14:21

The mountain shot is really good ... I like the red light.

Unfortunately, I cannot appreciate a photo of blueberries ... I have always disliked blueberries, and am content to let other people go crazy over them, thereby taking their attention off the real fruit, that I like.

noah counte # 11. July 2009, 16:41

I always loved Mt. Baker, and that is a beautiful picture of it.

I love blueberries, though the ones I get from the store have had the flavor bred out of them. The ones that grow out front are delicious, though I don't have enough of them.

jcstephjr # 11. July 2009, 17:56

Those are impressive blueberry bushes. I have four in my yard that are not nearly so lush and beautiful, but they do produce big, sweet delicious berries. I get about two gallons from the four bushes minus whatever the birds eat.

bkprbob # 12. July 2009, 02:50

That is a very nice picture. Perhaps someone with Opera would be able to help with the picture problem and suggest a solution other than what you worked out yourself. I haven't tried multiple pics in a blog entry.
I like blueberries a lot but they are expensive here. Many of them that get here are not ripe enough so they are not as sweet as they should be.

derWandersmann # 12. July 2009, 04:25

The blog-posting form has a provision for loading pictures into a blog post. I've never had any problem in loading more than one.

SqueakeyCat # 12. July 2009, 05:52

when putting a picture into a post, use the "add photo" part near the bottom of the right-hand side of the new post form.

there they also give you the option of using a picture from your photo albums as well.

hope this helps, and very nice post, though i too don't like blueberries that well.

solid copper # 12. July 2009, 06:04

The "upload" button gets stuck and doesn't move. Tonight as well. It is not always like this.

Somehow I believe that those who don't like blueberry happen to have tasted some less tasty ones and the memory stays. Same thing with people who hate bean sprouts - it often turns out that they don't know how to cook it and, even worse, have tried eating it raw. (Bean sprouts need to be quickly stir-fried in high heat with bits of ginger to taste good.)

I am glad that my American friends like that photo and the post. Thanks for telling me.

daxonmacs # 12. July 2009, 08:40

Nice pictures, I like the first one in particular.
There's always some magic working when sunlight lits a mountain top. Well, there is to me.
Blueberries are not really known here, but we have plenty of other berries available.
They look good though.

SqueakeyCat # 12. July 2009, 09:36

while growing up, i wasn't allowed a lot of things, so when i did get my first taste of blueberries, they were sour enough to beat lemonade.

maybe they were bad ones?

solid copper # 12. July 2009, 09:56

Yes, you got the not so good ones. Sometimes some are not sour but not sweet either, that is usually because there has been too much rain. Pollenization has to do with the quality as well.

lekrot # 12. July 2009, 13:18

Nice shots. Blueberries are great. We have a lot of them in our forests. We have had lots of rain and now the berries need sun. Blueberriepie with vanilla icecream is mmmm

noah counte # 13. July 2009, 00:46

Sour blue berries are worse than blueberries with no flavor. Ripe, fresh (homegrown, if possible) blueberries are delicious.

DpRabbit # 13. July 2009, 09:04

I love your blueberries....yummyyyyy...yummyyyy....
I like the contrast between the sky and the farm too.

solid copper # 13. July 2009, 09:19

Thank you. Glad you like it.

cloud07 # 15. July 2009, 11:18

like photos that you took so much ! ^^
have a nice day !

solid copper # 15. July 2009, 11:27

Thank you, you too.

studio41 # 16. July 2009, 07:08

very lovely picture, what a place! we couple blueberries with rhubarb here tonight, in crisp fashion, yum!

solid copper # 18. July 2009, 04:59

Thank you, Jill.
I had to google "rhubarb". I have never tried it. Looks good. I like lettece so I think I would like this plant, too.

Jim: those are impressive berry bushes because the owner work closely with scientists in the local universities. His berries are particularly large and round. I am envious of your garden.

noah counte # 18. July 2009, 12:47

The part of rhubarb that you eat is more like celery - the stalk. It tastes much different, though.

derWandersmann # 18. July 2009, 14:25

You bet it does! It's VERY sour, and is cooked up with lots of sugar. It's also very good.

Do not ... repeat: DO NOT eat the leaves. They are toxic. Oxalic acid, if memory serves.

noah counte # 18. July 2009, 15:31

We ate it raw, dipped in sugar, when I was a kid. Also in pie, especially with strawberries.

derWandersmann # 18. July 2009, 16:36

Yep; it's sometimes called "pie plant".

It's really a distinctive flavour, probably the result of the trace amounts of oxalates (not sufficiently concentrated to be dangerous) present in the stalks. I've loved it as a sort of stew, especially at breakfast, since I was very small.

daxonmacs # 18. July 2009, 19:43

Over here it gets mushed and booked with sugar. Much like it is done with apples.

Shaunak # 19. July 2009, 04:12

That is a spectacular picture of Mt. Baker. Five

s!

Personally, I am not to fond of blueberries though.

studio41 # 20. July 2009, 07:12

http://www.5min.com/Video/Rhubarb-Crisp-Recipe-60035747
a demonstration of harvesting rhubarb

however, I enjoy a different recipe for crisp not using quite so much sugar... and I couple the rhubarb with a sweet fruit like blueberries, then reduce sugar. if you'd like my recipe, IM me and I'll find it for you...

norfrid # 27. July 2009, 07:46

I've never visited a blueberry farm, but these days the forests in Norway are full of ripe, tasty and healthy blueberries. If it doesn't start raining, I'll try to pick some today too. At the same time the dogs will get good exercise and a lot of fun.
Nice photo with that mountain behind the blueberry field.

solid copper # 27. July 2009, 10:07

Thanks a lot, Jill, for the link. It is very interesting to me.

Thanks for the comment, norfrid. It is nice that you can pick wild blueberries so easily. Here we have blueberry farms in our suburbs and the free wild berries I have seen are salmon berries, mulberries, and hawthorn berries. It makes a bear country.

studio41 # 30. July 2009, 06:04

you are welcome