We went to pick blueberries today in North Bend with a group of friends from church. Berry picking is a fairly common thing to do around here, but we've never done it before. We went to a u-pick farm to pick our own blueberries at the base of Mount Si. There were a lot of cars in their parking lot, but there were many rows of blueberries and we rarely ran into anyone.

Picking blueberries was a new experience for me, I've never looked at a plant to find food on it and then eat it. We had to move branches aside and reach toward the back to find the ripe blueberries. There were also some thorny invasive blackberry plants that scratched us a few times.

There were two different kinds of blueberries available for picking, one was sweeter and larger and the other was more tart and better for baking. We got a little of both and ended up with four pounds of blueberries. We'll probably snack on quite a few of these and maybe make a pie or a smoothie with some others. A lot of people pick blueberries and then freeze them for later in the year. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and something that we'll look forward to doing next summer.