{"id":4021,"date":"2013-07-27T22:29:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T02:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2013-07-27T22:29:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T02:29:40","slug":"the-day-of-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4021","title":{"rendered":"The Day of Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lana and I headed out before 7 am this morning to pick blueberries at Stangland’s blueberry patch.<\/p>\n

\"Blueberry<\/a>
Blueberry Patch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yeah, it’s as thick as it looks in this picture. And it was dripping with dew, so we were quickly soaked head to toe. \u00a0The berries were a bit sparse with all the cool weather we’ve having lately. \u00a0But even so we each picked about 8 pounds in short order.<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a>
Big Bowl o’ Blueberries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After picking blueberries I headed up to Jeff and Deena Rosswurm’s to pick apricots. \u00a0Jeff said the apricots were good this year and had invited me up to pick. \u00a0I plucked an apricot off the tree and it was incredibly delicious. \u00a0I went and got Jeff’s ladder so I could pick all the apricots I could.<\/p>\n

\"Apricots\"<\/a>
Apricots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I sliced up 3 trays of apricots to dry them.<\/p>\n

\"Ready<\/a>
Ready to Dry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I saved a bunch to eat fresh, and then made the rest into jam. \u00a0I also made a batch of blueberry jam [1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Blueberry<\/a>
Blueberry and Apricot Jam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The jam is so pretty, it would be worth doing just to look at it. \u00a0That apricot jam looks like summer captured in a jar.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A Tempting Bowl of Fruit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If that’s not enough fruit I went to the Columbia City Farmer’s Market and picked up a pint of plums. They’re incredibly juicy and sweet. <\/p>\n

After last year’s late frost and then drought, this year’s fruit is just amazing.<\/p>\n

\n

1. I like jam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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