David and I recently discovered that we are the proud owners of a red huckleberry bush. Native to Washington state, these pretty little bushes produce a small tart red berry. Like most people I am more familiar with the blue/purple version of this berry and did not recognize the bush offhand as one that had edible berries. In retrospect I should have considered this quickly considering the fact that every other fruit producing plant in our yard has proved to be edible.

At any rate, the delicious little berries have now ripened and it feels so terrible to let them go to waste. For part of the day today I was on a mission to save the huckleberries before they went bad. They proved much more time consuming to pick than I anticipated but I have a nice little container of them in my refrigerator. And a whole lot more of them waiting to be picked.