Strawberry season...

Strawberry season is here!  There is a farm 20 minutes from our house that has a variety called Hood strawberries.  They are adapted to the cool weather here and are some of the sweetest strawberries that we've every tasted.  The farm is a U-pick and sells the berries for $1.35/pound.

So off we went!

Each of the girls got a bucket.

Karina tended to stay closer than Eliana.  The ground is really uneven in some places and so she needs help navigating the terrain sometimes.

 Not a whole lot of picking happened by the girls, as you can see.  Karina has a hard time judging which berries are ripe versus overripe and mushy.

 Eliana didn't pick very many either.

Instead, she enjoyed wandering off and exploring the rows and rows of strawberry plants.

And so Karina followed suit.

Even if they didn't get a whole lot of picking done, they had lots of fun!

 Elvin, on the other hand, got lots of picking done.  Eleven pounds of strawberries later, he was ready to go home!

These strawberries are bred for flavor and not shelf life.  So after giving away several pounds of strawberries to neighbors, we diligently ate and ate our way through our strawberries until they were all gone.