Strawberries

Fresh strawberries....or should I say local strawberries are one of my favorite treats of the season.

I can't seem to bring myself to buy the California Driscoll kind.....

the ones bred for shipping long distances on refrigerated trailer trucks.

Native strawberries should never be refrigerated.

They should be eaten immediately
...after washing of course.

We used to pick tons and tons when George's father had fields of them. Getting up in the early

morning to go picking was a seasonal ritual.

On weekend George's sister Maggie would round up her 4 kids and we'd all help pick for the busy weekend.

Their reward for their hard work was breakfast out with grandpa.

When you're a farm family breakfast is never the meal you miss.

Unfortunately now we have no more fields of strawberries only a small patch for ourselves.

Time passes and things change.

Seeing these strawberries which by the way we had growing in some pots we were selling.

What's so wonderful is that these are just putting out fruit now

....it's the middle of JULY and HOT!

Anyways it got me thinking about the other kind of Strawberries that my friend Evi

makes with her own 2 hands.

These cute make-dos!

I can't imagine the amount of time and patience you have to have to make these.

Sewing every little seed bead precisely in a grid pattern.

This one above even has a little strawberry pouch that

holds a pair of antique scissors

Is that the cutest thing or what?

I look at all the work that goes into Evi's pieces and it astounds me.

If you want to see more of her great work and her beautiful home and gardens

visit her HERE

Now I'm going to eat some juicy strawberries!

xxx