First Salmonberry

Yesterday Nora found and picked the first ripe salmonberry of the year.  Maybe a little on the 'underdone' side but ripe enough to make her happy.  This is a little earlier than normal.  In 2016 Nora picked and ate a much riper berry on the 10th of June (click here for post)- and last year Nora picked the first berries on the 17th of July (click here for post).  But in normal years we generally pick the first ripe salmonberry sometime in early July.  Yesterday I also checked the blueberries in Abercrombie and they are not even close to ripe.  It looks like we are right about on schedule for a normal year.  And this is GREAT because the last few years have been whacky - way late last year, way early the year before.  It is good just to have a normal year.
Patrick