Noticing the year: 06/21/08, plus a leech

[urbpan]

Today I ate my first wild blueberry of the year, at West Roxbury Quarry.  There were acres of blueberry bushes, and of the hundreds of berries I saw, there was only one ripe one.  A few more days or weeks and there will be a feast.  Also I ate a couple handfuls of mulberries, from three different trees growing in the lot where Alexis parks her car.  Each tree's berries tasted different, and the largest tree with the darkest berries tasted best.  I can see some neighbors have serviceberry trees dropping fruit, but I haven't gotten up the courage to forage them yet. 

This tiny leech hitched a ride on my finger as I grabbed rocks from Spy Pond to throw for Charlie.  Like most leeches, this one isn't a bloodsucker but a predator, engulfing insect larvae and other worms whole.  Leeches are the closest relatives to earthworms, and are thought to have evolved from a predatory earthworm-like animal.

Comments

AHHHHH!

[g-weir.livejournal.com]

AHHHHH! AHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

--G

[harrietbrown.livejournal.com]

You're having way too much fun for a depressed person. Go sit in a corner and mope or something! Feasting on berries, indeed ... the idea!

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

I had an [words cannot express the awesomeness] awesome wild blueberry lager today in Providence, if there's a John Harvard's over there they should have it.

[jolantru.livejournal.com]

Leech! *hair stands*

And speaking of mulberry... I have a pot of Morus Alba (white mulberry) I am growing and one mulberry cutting. ;)