Wild Blackberries

This morning I took the kids on a bike ride since there was no school.  As we were riding along we saw a large thicket of wild blackberries!  We stopped and picked a few to snack on.

Around 7 this evening we got back on our bikes and rode out to the thicket with plastic containers for everyone.  I can't decide if I felt like the Von Trapp family or Laura Ingalls Wilder, either way it was fun to hear the kids talk about, "What if a disaster happened and we became homeless, we could live on blackberries we pick ourselves!"

Or Jenny of the Prairie.  Maybe I felt like Jenny of the Prairie.

We got home, washed our blackberries and baked a blackberry pie.  I don't think they're ready to live on blackberries.