#berry :)

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[hoziersgirlfiend]

worm

[lixax96]

Bang Chan and Berry

[retrogeographie]

Chateauroux, café/Bar/Tabac/Hotel le Castel flora.

[notasoupcompany]

[christakisbang]

[astrogriffinart]

Berry, the squishy pink salamander-caterpillar thing.

[250318]

[sunshinewalks]

[foldingfittedsheets]

I can’t remember a time in my life where the summers weren’t full of berries to eat. Every trail has at least a few bushes offering their wares to people walking by.

Many of them aren’t monetized, they don’t keep well, not appealing enough for the bother of cultivating them. Salmon berries, huckleberries, thimble berries. We have black and blue berries, too. But you don’t see most of our local berries in the grocery store.

One of my most precious memories with my beloved was our earliest hike together. They didn’t grow up native to the area and exclaimed in alarm when they saw me reach casually toward a bush to pick a berry as we walked by.

“You can’t just eat berries! What if it’s poisonous?!”

“It’s not,” I said, puzzled. “I guess there’s some poisonous berries around here but I don’t eat those ones, it’s really easy to tell.”

“Those are safe to eat?”

I laughed and popped it into my mouth only to immediately realize it was horribly unripe. Salmon berries come in two colors you see, orange and red.

I’d mistaken an unripe red berry for a ripe orange one. It had felt soft enough to be ripe but it was so bitter it hurt. So an instant after asserting it was safe to eat I opened my mouth with a “bleh” to let it fall back out.

“They- they’re not poisonous it just wasn’t ripe,” I insisted.

My beloved looked skeptical but scanned the bush and plucked another berry to me. “Try this one.”

The sun shone beautifully through the dappled tree canopy, illuminating the gleaming berry in their hand, a perfect snapshot of a romantic summer moment. I took the berry, my fingers brushing their palm to bring the little fruit up to my lips while looking into their smiling eyes.

I had to spit it out.

It was as overwhelmingly bitter as the last one, but I didn’t mind the way my beloved laughed at me.

[lustingfood]

Bumbleberry Cheesecake Crumble (x)

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[goobersplat]

Custom Sanrio Build a Bears: Little Forest, Cookie Cinna, Cherry, and Berry

[wolfchans]

Promise that I'll love you plenty I hope this'll never end for eternity

[blooming-lenses]

bee on a berry flower

2024/05/18