Always confident, rarely wrong.

[spookyevilone]

"I'm bringing x-amount of berry-carrying containers."
"I think you're overestimating the number of thimbleberries we're going to find."
"I think you're underestimating the tenacity with which I intend to hunt for thimbleberries."

5 hours. Two state parks. Miles of hiking and thrashing through underbrush. Dozens of scratches and mosquito bites. Barely a double handful of ripe berries. I believe I made my point, but it irritates me how he's usually right. Jerk.

Still don't like That Guy.

Bad year for thimbleberries. We not only didn't find many ripe ones, we didn't find many non-ripe ones or evidence of plants that bore berries this season at all. Gooseberries and raspberries, however, were in full swing.

Comments

[selkie-b.livejournal.com]

That was often the case in Washington State too - and we had them on our property... man when they were there though they make the best jam mixed with red huckleberries! :)

[melody-rossiter.livejournal.com]

Maybe there have been a lot of hungry birdies and critters.

What exactly is a thimbleberry? Is it like an elderberry, or a salmonberry?