U-Pick Lavender & Berry

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

A couple weekends ago I learned that there are a lot of ferries in the Puget Sound area. As in, when you search for directions to get home from the Olympic Peninsula, Google Maps gives you the top three results and they each involve a different ferry. Sadly, we had just spent all our money on berries, lavender, and honey so we had to take the land route on our way back, through Tacoma.

Anyways! Whoever decided that U-Pick berry farms should also have lavender, was genius. Graysmarsh Farms in Sequim (pronounced 'squim') had raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and loganberries. It had fields of strawberries that smelt so good, we nearly hyperventilated. We ate berries until the sugar rush took us to lavender-picking, and picked lavender until we realized we were actually picking bees. So, so many bees. I spent the last of our remaining cash monies on a jar of local honey, which now sits prominently on my desk for when it strikes me to build up my resistance to local pollen allergens.

This was a tremendously good day.