Thank you to Betty Ownsbey!

[BettyO]

(07-12-2012 11:40 AM)Laurie Verge Wrote:  

(07-12-2012 09:58 AM)J. Beckert Wrote:  What a huckleberry she is!!!

Now there's a compliment I've never heard before!!! When I was a child, you could stop on the edge of almost any country road and pick huckleberries right off the bushes that grew wild all over the place. You never see these wild huckleberry bushes anymore in Maryland. I suspect that the salt and chemicals we use during the winter have killed them. It's like trying to find chinquapin bushes. How many of you remember them?

But, I digress....

Thanks, ya'll! I must admit that traveling home from DC the other evening, I saw a bunch of fellows (looked like construction workers) who had stopped alongside the road and were picking berries (probably blackberries) and eating them off of some huge bushes to the side of the road - could have been huckleberries, I don't know.....