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Zo, let's jump the squiggle and get started.
Yesterday I picked and ate the first "ripe" blackberry I have seen in my wanderings around Northern Califronia. It was from my own yard and was appallingly bitter. This is not only my first blackberry of the year, but the first from this plant, a thorn-less cultivar planted from a cutting provided by a friend about two years ago. We have also been harvesting moderately bitter strawberries for a few weeks now. We must harvest them, or the snails, slugs and birds get them, the blackberries maybe not, so we will the the rest ripen a fair while longer.
Mean while, it has returned to being cool, cloudy and overcast here in the Hayward/Castro Valley, CA area after a local heat wave that I missed but which is alleged to have lasted a bit over a week. During that week I was up near Ft. Bragg, CA and it was unseasonably warm and fog free up there, clear and birght, from the end of June through about the 6th of July.
So, what is old mother nature up to in your area, and where is that?