Wednesday’s Photos
Mountain Air, Wildflowers and Huckleberries
Last week I took my wife to one of our favourite huckleberry spots about a 1000 m above sea level. She was extremely grateful, as she is a passionate gatherer of all kinds of wild and garden berries. For those of you unfamiliar with huckleberries, they are a distant relative of the commercial blueberries. However, the huckleberries are superior in taste and nutritious value. The heat was bad and the mosquitoes even worse, but the extra pain was worth every minute of the ordeal. I used the opportunity to capture the scenery with my video camera. Enjoy.
The Peter and Gertrud Klopp Family 
Thank you, lovely video
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Nice!
Love to see your wife 🙂
I love to drink Blueberry spritzer…
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You will also get to see her on next Wednesday’s post. Prost!
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Das freut mich!
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What a delightful video, to be able to enjoy the Huckleberry picking, view and wild flowers without the mosquitos. Thank you, Peter, for sharing this delightful video with us!
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You are very welcome. I am happy to read that you liked this little video.
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Was that all? In college music we studied this composition and played it. Thanks for the life again.
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I am so glad that the music brought back some sweet memories. And who may this ‘someone’ be?
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What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. You reminded me of picking blueberries with my father when we lived. in North Manitoba.
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Perhaps they were Saskatoon berries, which grow on higher bushes. I remember them from the time we lived in Alberta in the 70s.
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We had Saskatoon berries as well as Pincherry trees. The blueberries grew wild north of 56, especially in areas where there had been bush fires. I remember mom making 200 blueberry pies that we enjoyed over the winter months. My dad was a minister so we had a lot of company.
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Nice video, Peter! I also enjoyed the music!
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Thank you, my friend!
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Some day I have to see your part of the world. It just looks so idyllic. And what do you now do with all those berries? Eat them as is, make a pie, or can them?
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Yes, you should as soon as the travel bans have been lifted, Amy. My wife freezes them, so we can enjoy them all winter.
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That’s a perfect choice of music for your video, and the landscape is gorgeous. Even those of us who aren’t blessed with huckleberries have them as part of our culture. There’s the famous cartoon character, Huckleberry Hound, and in the 1993 movie Tombstone, Doc Holliday uses a common southern expression: “I’m your huckleberry.” The general meaning of that phrase is, “Name the place, and I’ll go with you,” or “Name the job and I can do it.” It’s another way of saying, “I’d be happy to oblige you.”
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I am so glad you like the video and the music. If the music does not fit in a video, it becomes mere background noise.
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Beautiful nature as usual. I never heard of huckleberry but I will definitely check them out!
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How nice, the berries look like the blueberries that grow wild in Lüneburger Heide. And then the suitable music for the berry picking … looks like Biene had success!
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We went out to our spot three times and gathered enough to last us through the winter. The berries are ideal for freezing.
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Wow, that’s absolutely amazing! Are you the only ones collecting? Or are there so many (berries)?
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This is ‘our’ spot we discovered some years ago.
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Good for you! Mum’s the word! 😉
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Beautiful
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Such a happy video, along with the music, thank you Peter for sharing. Huckleberries make a delicious jam.
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That was a very pleasant 59 seconds! Do you get the Juneberries/Saskatoons/Serviceberries there, too?
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Just the Saskatoon berries. I am glad you liked the video, Robert.
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Wow! You found a lot of huckleberries! And I loved the video..the music went perfectly with the scenery of the flowers and berries.
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we don’t get these kinds of berries here so it is interesting to watch this video. The berries we have in our region requires us to travel in the rural landscape in order for us to witness them. Are these berries expensive to buy from your local market?
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These berries need to picked in the wild and are not for sale in the stores, Arv!
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oh! I thought you can also find some of these berries in the market
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Terrific video, Peter. I bet they are delicious freshly picked. I’ve had them in pies and they have a unique flavor.
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Quite a catch. And a background score to match 🙂
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