Good morning! A quick hello to share our strawberry bounty with you. We planted a patch last year and boy howdy are we reaping the rewards. Each morning for the past two or three weeks (not sure, it’s a strawberry haze!) we pick a big handful like this. Super sweet and delicious!

I was a little worried that we would have more competition from our wild visitors, with near-ripe berries disappearing in the midnight hours early on. Apparently there are quite enough for us all now, with so many ripening at once.

Which reminds me, the opossum visited in broad daylight the other day. We saw her scrounging for fallen birdseed under the feeder and went outside to see. By the time we got there, she had hidden in the strawberry patch, and as she came out fiercely hissed at me, which was a surprise. Normally, we chat a minute before she saunters off. Then the hubster spied the reason, she had a baby clinging to her back! It was a wonder to witness that bit of adorableness. I gave her some space, and she darted for the shed, making funny noises to coax the baby into her pouch; because, as we discovered, opossums are marsupials. To think we probably wouldn’t have learned that had we not planted strawberries! Gosh, I really do love nature.